New JAXA President First Monthly Report
JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference May 2013, JAXA
“Now, I really perceive that JAXA has graduated from the technological verification phase that has been a goal of JAXA’s assignment in the last 10 years, and entered into the next phase as JAXA has successfully performed 19 consecutive launches of H-IIA and H-IIB launch vehicles combined.
That is also backed politically by the government’s new “Basic Plan for Space Policy” and also by JAXA’s new mid-term plan; therefore, I acknowledge that the technological backbone was confirmed and we can move to the next step.”