HOPE-X - Definition and Overview

• HOPE = H-II Orbiting Plane
• HOPE-X = HOPE-Experimental

A joint venture between NASDA and NAL (both now part of JAXA), started in the 1980s as part of the Japanese contribution to the International Space Station, was cancelled in 2003. Originally designed to be orbitted by the H-II (H2) launcher, it was subsequently projected for the H-II A (H2A) launcher.

See Also

• Space Shuttle program
• EADS Phoenix successor to the cancelled Hermes program that was a contemporary of Hope.
• Shuttle Buran

External Links

• Hope-X Program (http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/note/rocket/e/roc106_his6_e.html)
• JAXA (http://www.jaxa.jp)