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Japan to launch joint military, scientific optical data relay satellite – NASASpaceflight.com
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan plans to launch an H-IIA rocket on Sunday, 29 November…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan plans to launch an H-IIA rocket on Sunday, 29 November to deploy a top secret communications satellite to support the country’s reconnaissance and scientific programs.
Liftoff is scheduled for a two-hour window opening at 16:25 local time (07:25 UTC or 02:25 EST) from the Tanegashima Space Center.
The payload
The Optical Data Relay Satellite payload aboard this mission will be used to relay data collected by Japan’s fleet of Information Gathering Satellites (IGS)…
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