Mitsubishi Heavy Makes Japan’s First Commercial Satellite Launch
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency made their first commercial satellite launch today in a challenge to European and Russian services.
A Korea Aerospace Research Institute satellite was onboard an H-2A rocket that blasted off at 1:39 a.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center, which is on a Pacific Ocean island off the southern coast of mainland Japan, according to a statement from JAXA on its website. The rocket also carried a Japanese satellite.