Kimiya Yui
Japanese - (JAXA)
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Date of Birth: Jan. 30, 1970
Age: 55
Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He was selected for the agency in 2009.
Upcoming Spaceflights
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-11
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 31, 2025, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission:
SpaceX Crew-11 is the eleventh crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 1
Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-17M
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 22, 2015, 9:02 p.m.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.
Long March 6A
Yaogan 40 Group 02
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-91
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 15-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-93
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-84
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
