JAXA to Launch Mars Moon Exploration Spacecraft on Oct. 20

Tokyo, Aug. 20 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Thursday that it will launch an H3 rocket carrying a Mars moon exploration spacecraft on Oct. 20. The No. 10 H3 rocket is scheduled to blast off from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at 4:41:03 a.m. that day. The Martian Moons eXploration, or MMX, spacecraft is e...

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