Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

The TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo is unveiled to the media at a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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