Japan is making an effort to create its own version of a global positioning system.
Japan is making an effort to create its own version of a global positioning system.
An H-2A rocket will lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on Thursday morning. It will carry the satellite «Michibiki No.2, » which is part of a 4-satellite system.
Two other Michibiki satellites will be launched by the end of this year. The first satellite for the system was sent into space 7 years ago on a trial basis.
Each of the satellites will be in a special orbit that covers Japan for 8 hours a day so that at all times more than one satellite will always be flying over the country.
