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This country has launched successfully its H2-A rocket into orbit on Astro-H satellite.
The ambition of Japan is to better understand for example how galaxies form and how the universe was created.
Existential questions that attempt to answer through its satellite named Astro-H. A rather special tool, since it must give scientists another image of the universe by capturing X-rays Craft 14 meters long and 9 wide and weighing 2.7 tons, Astro-H embeds 200 mirrors collection and concentration of X-rays to the latest generation of instruments, including four telescopes and two X-ray detectors, a system extension of focal length with two detectors and a spectrometer.
"It goes on and watch ray spectrum of the X region of very high energy," said the agency.
Japan is not the first satellite of this type. Several others have been in orbit since 1979, the most recent, Suzaku, dating from 2005.
The H-2A launch vehicle, developed with JAXA and operated by Mitsubishi Heavy conglomerate industries (Mhi), recorded as well, with shooting Wednesday 29 success on 30 shots, the last having taken place in November for the placement in orbit of a Canadian commercial satellite.
With a success rate of 97%, this rocket is a competing theory of solid foreign launchers like Ariane.
The will of Mhi, JAXA and the authorities is to achieve develop by 2020 a new generation of better armed pitcher to compete not only technically but also financially.
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