Japan put a new weather satellite into space on Tuesday in the hope that it can improve the forecasting of typhoons and detect volcanic gas plumes.
The successful launch comes the day after a typhoon strafed Japan and just over a week after a
volcano killed more than 60 people when it erupted without warning.
The Japanese-made H-2A rocket carrying the Himawari-8 weather satellite blasted into a blue sky at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima.
The successful launch comes the day after a typhoon strafed Japan and just over a week after a
volcano killed more than 60 people when it erupted without warning.
The Japanese-made H-2A rocket carrying the Himawari-8 weather satellite blasted into a blue sky at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima.