Japan’s space agency JAXA is set to launch its new flagship, the H3 rocket, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. The launch is scheduled for noon on Monday. The space agency hopes to put an advanced observation satellite into orbit.
The agency’s third H3 rocket launch will carry the Daichi-4 satellite, also known as the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4), which was jointly developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Electric. The satellite was built after the loss of the Daichi-3 in a failed H3 launch in May last year.
The H3 rocket will follow a preset path over the Pacific Ocean, after which it will split into two stages and release the satellite. The remains of the rocket are expected to fall into the Indian Ocean.
