Japan’s Abysilon-3 solid-fuel rocket was launched on Thursday (January 18th) carrying the commercial Asnaro-2 satellite.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported that the satellite had reached its designated orbit one hour later.
The satellite weighed 513 kilograms. It is designed to monitor the Earth’s surface, and can identify objects one meter in length and send their photos to the control center. The satellite may be used to warn of natural disasters, the agency said.
The Apollo missile is the third generation and developed from Japanese missiles, and took 12 years, where the development of satellite separation technology has been developed .
The missile’s advantages are summarized in three tasks: time saving, provision of equipment and provision of resources. The “H2A” currently used in Japan is only twice the size of the 26-meter-long Abysilon-3.
The missile is equipped with artificial intelligence elements, which can be monitored by two computers only.
The first Abysilon rocket was launched in 2013.
