https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/

https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/japan_s_history/index.shtml

Dave F.

See
https://defencehub.live/threads/ind...t-by-2020.1346/

At the bottom of this page (AlphaMike’s message of September 26, 2020), the last two photos do not show Kartika rockets but Kappa 8 rockets.
On the last one, we can read on the first stage level "SK-8" followed by a last digit, perhaps "SK-8-3".

Thank you. Yes, they've kept ISAS (I imagine the team that Dr. Itokawa created, with its own design philosophy [like the von Braun team at ABMA, and later at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center], was so successful--which its record shows--that the government ministry in charge of such matters decided that it would be wiser to not dilute ISAS.) Also:

Thank you for posting that ISAS history website's link. I'd found it several years ago, but lost its URL when my other computer died--it is the best history of ISAS that I've seen.

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Ah--Thank You! (The Kartika looks like an attractive--and simple--scale model prototype, too...) The Kappa 8 decor schemes look like a "hybrid" between the ISAS paint scheme (I can see the fluorescent red/orange body bands) and that of LAPAN (I can see its vertical lettering), Indonesia's space research organization.

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