Japan’s Kizuna Reaches Operational Orbit

Japan’s high-speed Internet satellite Kizuna, also known as Winds, has reached its geostationary orbit at 143 deg. E. Long., where controllers are continuing the checkout of all instruments in time for normal operations scheduled to begin late in June. JAXA says an electrical problem in the main Sun...

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