Japan Launches First Environmental Satellite
<i> Reuters</i>
TOKYO — Japan launched a satellite Tuesday that will monitor weather patterns and changes in the Earth’s surface, such as destruction of the Amazon rain forest, a national space agency spokesman said.
The Japan Earth Resources Satellite-1, its first environmental survey satellite, was hurled 353 miles aloft from the Tanegashima space center in the ninth launching of an an H-1 rocket, and will circle earth once every 44 days for two years.
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