Japan's ETS-VIII Deploys Large Reflector Antenna

Credit: JAXA
Japan's Engineering Test Satellite VIII (ETS-VIII) is on its way to a nominal mission after deploying a pair of complicated antenna reflectors, each the size of a tennis court. Mission managers placed the spacecraft into its normal attitude-control mode on Dec. 27, marking the end of its post-launch...

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