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Photo: Japan Launches Internet Satellite


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February 23, 2008—Japan's domestically developed H-2A rocket (pictured) carrying the communications satellite "Kizuna" was launched Saturday evening from the southern island of Tanegashima, according to a live Internet broadcast by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Photograph courtesy JAXA