launched from Japan

Arase

Success
DEC 20201611:00:00 UTC

Second Epsilon flight and the first of an upgraded version with new second and third stages. It carried Arase, a JAXA satellite that studies how plasma waves and charged particles create and remove electrons of over 1 MeV in the radiation belts around Earth.

launched from Uchinoura

aboard Epsilon Epsilon-2 into MEO

Broadcast

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Payload

Arase (ERG)

Heliophysics

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