News: H-2A Rocket Lofts Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter

Space News has an article mentioning: "... Ltd. of Yokohama, separated from the rocket 27 minutes after liftoff, followed shortly by deployment of a solar sail experiment called the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun (IKAROS), JAXA said. Akatsuki is due to arrive at Venus in early ..."

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