Japan’s Enhanced Epsilon rocket thundered into the night skies over Kyushu Island on Tuesday, embarking on its debut mission to deliver the ERG Radiation Belt research spacecraft into a high-energy orbit around Earth to penetrate the Van Allen Belts for a detailed study of particle-wave interactions in Earth’s powerful magnetic field.
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Japan’s Enhanced Epsilon rocket thundered into the night skies over Kyushu Island on Tuesday, embarking on its debut mission to
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A beefed up version of Japan’s Epsilon Rocket will make its debut on Tuesday, carrying out a high-energy orbital delivery with the ERG satellite that sets out to study Space Weather phenomena from a highly elliptical orbit that takes the spacecraft through the most intense region of particle acceleration in Earth’s magnetosphere.
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The first Enhanced Epsilon rocket is delivered to the Uchinoura Space Center for its debut mission in December 2016, lifting into orbit the ERG spacecraft (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace).
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The ERG Spacecraft (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) is pictured during its final preparations for liftoff atop the first Enhanced Epsilon launching from the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan.
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