Anyone familiar with JAXA launches that's preferably Japanese?

[ED_4]

Anyone here that's Japanese? I have a question about a launch clip and saw something on the scene in while JAXA was performing their launch of the GCOM-W1

If you watch the video clip below:

JAXA GCOM-W1 launch

And go to the time slot of ~11:00.
Look down at the area of the bottom left of the camera view. Then you will see something that looks like a huge square bonfire that's surrounded by a fence and some lights shining toward it.

Now my question is, what is that for? The huge bonfire.

 

[Loru]

Definitelly excess LH burning facility - you can see pipes going from tanks to pad:

 

[C3PO]

LH? Not GH?

 

[Loru]

LH? Not GH?

You're right. At this point it's not liquid anymore

 

[N_Molson]

Anyone here that's Japanese?

As far as I remember, I never saw a Japanese flag under a member avatar. That still puzzles me. :idk:

 

[Andy44]

As far as I remember, I never saw a Japanese flag under a member avatar. That still puzzles me. :idk:

I have never been able to figure that out. When I was a mod, the other mods didn't know why either. We need an Orbiter Japan outreach program.

 

[C3PO]

You're right. At this point it's not liquid anymore

OK :thumbup: I wasn't sure we were talking about the same kind of facility.

As far as I remember, I never saw a Japanese flag under a member avatar. That still puzzles me. :idk:

Wasn't there some japanese guy on the M6 forum? Worked on Apollo panels or was it AGC?

 

[N_Molson]

Oh yes, you're right, the NASSP panels were done by Japanese people. But I never saw them on OF.

 

[Pipcard]

As far as I remember, I never saw a Japanese flag under a member avatar. That still puzzles me. :idk:

I'm sorry to not have shown you this earlier, but this is a post about the planned H-III rocket: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=20197

(He or she has a Canadian flag under the avatar, but the post is mostly in Japanese. And that's the user's only post.)