Japan launches ETS-8 on an HII-A
The eighth spacecraft in Japan's Engineering Test Satellite series (ETS-8) deployed its solar arrays and began tracking the sun following launch early Dec. 18 on an H-IIA rocket from the launch site on Tanegashima Island. Liftoff of the three-ton satellite, which will test hand-held satellite...
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