Japan's new radar satellite launched

Japan's new radar satellite launched

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A trail of white smoke is left in the blue sky by an H-2A rocket carrying a new information-gathering satellite ascending in the air after being launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 12, 2011. The radar satellite successfully separated from the rocket into an orbit as planned, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. (Photo taken with fish-eye lens)

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