Japan Back in Earth Observing Game
Credit: AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Japanese space agency JAXA is completing check-out of one of the largest spacecraft that its H-IIA launcher has carried into orbit, the 8,800-lb. Advanced Land Observing Satellite, which will be used for everything from mapping to improving the rice harvest. ALOS was put into a 430-mi. Sun...
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