Space News reports that the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-2A rocket “lifted off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 10:32 a.m. Eastern and deployed the nearly 5,500-kilogram Inmarsat-6 F1 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit about 26 minutes later. A little over two hours later, London-based Inmarsat tweeted that it had acquired initial telemetry from the satellite.” The Inmarsat-6 F1 is “Inmarsat’s first dual-band telecommunications satellite.” It will “need about 200 days to climb to its geostationary slot above the Indian Ocean.”
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Japan’s New HTV-X Cargo Spacecraft Launches to ISS for 1st Time
SPACE reports, “Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday (Oct. 25). The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9 a.m local Japan time on Oct. 26).”
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JAXA HTV-X1 Cargo Launch (Launch occurs at the 15:50 mark)
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