Re: Japan deploys worlds first large-scale Solar Sail

[Taro Toporific]

launched a small rocket S-310-34 from Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan, at 15:15, August 9, 2004 (Japan Standard Time)
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Here's a better view from a different angle of the Launch Control specialists at the Uchinoura Space Center.

[Blah Pete]

So are we supposed to celebrate the new Thijn Film Solar Sail or the fact that Japan launched a rocket that didn't explode

Japan Institute of Space and Astronomical Science (and occaisional deep sea rocket exploration)

[GuyJean]

Here's a better view from a different angle of the Launch Control specialists at the Uchinoura Space Center.

Japan Institute of Space and Astronomical Science (and occaisional deep sea rocket exploration)

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think..... Bah! No I don't.

GJ

[Watcher]

What's with all the helmets? Are they thinking the sky is fallin'?

launched a small rocket S-310-34 from Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan, at 15:15, August 9, 2004 (Japan Standard Time)
]

Here's a better view from a different angle of the Launch Control specialists at the Uchinoura Space Center.

[Blah Pete]

Watcher

What's with all the helmets? Are they thinking the sky is fallin'?

I guess you have not seen a Japanese rocket launch. Never sure what direction the thing will go.

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