Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar explorer soars skyward after it was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 14. A ring-shaped cloud is seen around the top of the rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale.

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