Uchinoura Space Center

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rocket launch site spaceport

Uchinoura Space Center is a Japanese launch facility in Kagoshima Prefecture used primarily for scientific satellites and sounding rocket missions.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Uchinoura Space Center canonical	7
Kagoshima Space Center	3
Uchinoura Space Center launch complex	1
Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T727704 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Uchinoura Space Center
Context triple: [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, owns, Uchinoura Space Center]

A. Tanegashima Space Center
Tanegashima Space Center is Japan’s primary space launch complex, located on Tanegashima Island and used for launching satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.
B. JAXA Tsukuba Space Center
The JAXA Tsukuba Space Center is Japan’s primary space research and mission control facility, responsible for operating and managing many of the nation’s satellite and human spaceflight activities.
C. Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
D. Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
E. Vostochny Cosmodrome
Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport in the Amur Oblast designed to reduce Russia’s dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and support a wide range of civilian space launches.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Uchinoura Space Center
Target entity description: Uchinoura Space Center is a Japanese launch facility in Kagoshima Prefecture used primarily for scientific satellites and sounding rocket missions.

A. Tanegashima Space Center
Tanegashima Space Center is Japan’s primary space launch complex, located on Tanegashima Island and used for launching satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.
B. JAXA Tsukuba Space Center
The JAXA Tsukuba Space Center is Japan’s primary space research and mission control facility, responsible for operating and managing many of the nation’s satellite and human spaceflight activities.
C. Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
D. Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
E. Vostochny Cosmodrome
Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport in the Amur Oblast designed to reduce Russia’s dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and support a wide range of civilian space launches.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	rocket launch site ⓘ spaceport ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
formerlyKnownAs	Kagoshima Space Center ⓘ linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
hasAlternativeName	USC ⓘ Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA ⓘ linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
hasFacility	mission control facilities ⓘ optical tracking systems ⓘ payload preparation facilities ⓘ radar tracking systems ⓘ solid-fuel launch complex ⓘ sounding rocket launch complex ⓘ tracking and telemetry station ⓘ
launchAzimuthRange	primarily eastward over the Pacific ⓘ
launchesFromHere	Epsilon rocket ⓘ linked to: Epsilon launch vehicle M-V rocket ⓘ Mu series rockets ⓘ S-160 sounding rocket ⓘ S-210 sounding rocket ⓘ S-310 sounding rocket ⓘ S-520 sounding rocket ⓘ SS-520 sounding rocket ⓘ sounding rockets ⓘ
launchPadCount	multiple launch pads ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Kagoshima Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Japan Standard Time ⓘ
locatedOn	Kyushu ⓘ
location	Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan ⓘ
nearbyBodyOfWater	Pacific Ocean ⓘ
notableFor	Japanese scientific satellite launches ⓘ small and medium-class solid-fuel launch vehicles ⓘ
operator	JAXA ⓘ linked to: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ⓘ
ownedBy	Government of Japan ⓘ
partOf	JAXA ground and launch network ⓘ
primaryUse	scientific satellite launches ⓘ sounding rocket launches ⓘ
supportsOrbitType	highly elliptical scientific orbits ⓘ low Earth orbit ⓘ sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ
usedBy	Japanese space science community ⓘ international scientific collaborations ⓘ
usedFor	astronomy missions ⓘ ionospheric research ⓘ space science missions ⓘ technology demonstration missions ⓘ upper atmosphere research ⓘ

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Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency → owns → Uchinoura Space Center ⓘ

Epsilon launch vehicle → launchSite → Uchinoura Space Center ⓘ

Hayabusa → launchSite → Uchinoura Space Center ⓘ

subject linked to: Hayabusa spacecraft

Uchinoura Space Center → formerlyKnownAs → Kagoshima Space Center ⓘ