Japan joins interplanetary club with launch of Planet-B to Mars
Japan joined the U.S. and Russia Saturday as the third member of the small club of nations that have launched space probes to celestial bodies beyond Earth orbit, using its M-5 solid-fuel rocket to hurl the Planet-B spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit that will take it to Mars late next year...
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