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Urgent: Japanese rocket on 1st commercial flight launches Canadian comsat

Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan on Tuesday launched an H-2A rocket on its first fully commercial mission, carrying a communications satellite for a Canadian satellite company, which will provide broadband communications coverage from South America to the Middle East.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) launched Telesat's broadcast and telecommunication satellite, Telstar 12 VANTAGE (Telstar 12V), aboard the H-2A Launch Vehicle No.29 (H-2A F29) at 3:50 p.m. (0650 GMT) on Tuesday from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center in Japan's southwestern Kagoshima prefecture. Endit