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  • Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3

    Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3

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    Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA rocket on Saturday (05:30 UTC), carrying the third spacecraft for the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System of GPS augmentation satellites. The H-IIA was scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre with QZS-3 a week ago, before an issue was found late in the countdown. H-IIA Launch: The…

  • Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3

    Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3

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    Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA rocket on Saturday (05:30 UTC), carrying the third spacecraft for the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System of GPS augmentation satellites. The H-IIA was scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre with QZS-3 a week ago, before an issue was found late in the countdown. H-IIA Launch: The…

  • Japanese H-IIA rocket successfully lofts GPM Core

    Japanese H-IIA rocket successfully lofts GPM Core

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    The Japanese have launched the centrepiece of the Global Precipitation Measurement constellation, an international partnership aimed at providing a worldwide map of precipitation levels. The GPM Core satellite will serve to provide a reference point with which the rest of the constellation’s data can be calibrated. The launch of the H-IIA rocket took place at 18:37…