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Japanese Plans | (N.Z. Press A»>n—copt/ritht) TOKYO, Mar. 2. Japan will fire a four-stage space rocket from its space centre at Uchinoura. Southern Japan, on March 26, in a programme to orbit Japan’s first artificial satellite by 1967. “If the rocket launching is successful, it could hasten Japan's space programme.” a spokesman for the Tokyo University Aeronautics and Space Research Institute said Photographs of the spherical cone of the four-stage rocket were made public last week. The launching will be an experiment to lift the tiny spherical cone of the fourstage Lamda rocket into space. The four-stage rocket is 54.7 feet long and weighs 8.48 tons.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 17
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107SATELLITE LAUNCHING Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 17
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