# Kakuda

*Test range*

JAXA Kakuda Space Center

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 38.0400° N, 140.7600° E |
| State | J |
| What is done there | rocket engine test site |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Kakuda Space Center is a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), located in the city of Kakuda in Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, specializing in the development and testing of rocket engines and space propulsion systems. The LE-5 (including the LE-5A/LE-5B version), and the LE-7 (including the LE-7A version) rocket enginese were developed at the Kakuda Space Center.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=38.04,140.76
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuda_Space_Center
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.