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Post date: May 21, 2010 10:31:15 AM
Japan has launched its first Venus probe satellite,
for a two-year mission.
An H-IIA rocket carrying the Venus climate orbiter called Akatsuki blasted
off from a Japanese space centre in Kagoshima, southern Japan.
Television pictures showed the vehicle lifting off and heading into space,
jettisoning its solid-fuel boosters on the way and finally
letting slip the much smaller probe.
video source: news.bbc.co.uk
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