Japan's ERG Mission takes Flight

Japan's Enhanced Epsilon Rocket is set for its debut mission on December 20, 2016 - lifting off from the Uchinoura Space Center with the ERG satellite that sets out to explore how electrons are accelerated and lost within Earth's magnetosphere. Sporting a number of changes compared to the original Epsilon flown in 2013, Epsilon-2 will deliver the small observatory to a highly elliptical orbit peaking over 30,000 Kilometers in altitude.

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