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  • H-2A rocket boosts Japanese radar spy satellite into orbit

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    射点に向けて固定しているカメラが多いので、飛行中はあまり撮ってないのですが、少ない中から１枚。 pic.twitter.com/snjo2anBtv — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) February 1, 2015 Japan launched a new satellite Sunday to reinforce the country’s fleet of orbiting spy platforms charged with monitoring its neighbors in the Asia-Pacific. The spacecraft carries a sophisticated radar payload designed to survey the globe night and day — and in all weather conditions — from an…

  • Japanese rocket launch postponed by poor weather

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    File photo of an H-2A rocket rolling to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center. Credit: JAXA A threat of thick clouds kept a Japanese H-2A rocket from launching Thursday with a government-owned radar reconnaissance satellite. Japanese officials did not set a new target launch date, and said the liftoff would be rescheduled based…