launched from Japan

Hisaki

Success
SEP 14201305:00:00 UTC

Maiden flight of the Epsilon rocket, which runs its own health checks with automated systems. An attempt on 27 August was aborted 19 seconds before liftoff by a computer synchronization problem.

Epsilon placed Hisaki, an extreme ultraviolet space telescope that observes Venus, Mars and Jupiter from Earth orbit, about 61 minutes after liftoff.

launched from Uchinoura

aboard Epsilon 4 Stages Epsilon-1 into LEO

Broadcast

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Payload

Hisaki (SPRINT-A)

Astronomy

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