Japan's 'high-speed' satellite
Japan's space agency has launched a communications satellite designed to enable super high-speed data transmission.
A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the satellite, "Kizuna", lifted off from the southern island of Tanegashima, according to a live internet broadcast by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The initial lift-off was successful despite a one-and-a-half hour delay due to strong winds and an unexpected ship entry in restricted waters near the space centre.
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A Japanese H-IIA carrier rocket has successfully launched the Wideband InterNetworking test and Demonstration Satellite (WINDS) experimental communication satellite. WINDS, also known as Kizuna, is a Japanese spacecraft intended to relay Internet access to homes and organisaa