Tokyo: Japan successfully launched a satellite as part of a broader effort to build a homegrown geolocation system that boosts the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres.
An H-IIA rocket blasted off yesterday morning from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan carrying the Michibiki No. 2 satellite, which was later released into orbit.
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