🚀Japan Successfully Launches Intelligence Satellite – JIJI PRESS
Tanegashima, Kagoshima Pref., Feb. 27 (Jiji Press)–Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. <7011> and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched on Tuesday an H-2A rocket carrying an information-gathering optical satellite of the government.
The H-2A Launch Vehicle No. 38 lifted off from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at 1:34 p.m. (4:34 a.m. GMT).