M-V | Suzaku
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Launch Window
July 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m. - July 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
July 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m. - July 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m.
Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to probe high energy X-ray sources, such as supernova explosions, black holes and galactic clusters. It was launched on 10 July 2005 aboard the M-V rocket on the M-V-6 mission. After its successful launch, the satellite was renamed Suzaku after the mythical Vermilion bird of the South
The M-V rocket also called Mu-5 was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites.
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