U.S. Space Force Deploys First Payload On Japanese Satellite

H-3 rocket launch

The QZS-6 satellite was launched by an H-3 rocket on Feb. 2. 

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The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has for the first time deployed a payload on a Japanese satellite. A USSF space domain-awareness payload was put into space on Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite 6 (QZS-6), which was lofted by an H-3 rocket on Feb. 2. Operated by the Space Operations Command’s Mission Delta 2...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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