JDRS-1 launch

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’s H-IIA F43 launch vehicle launched the JDRS-1 satellite from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex, at JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on 29 November 2020, at 07:25 UTC (16:25 Japan Standard Time - JST). JDRS-1 (データ中継衛星1号機, Data Relay Satellite No. 1) is an optical data relay satellite designed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), part of the Japanese Data Relay System (JDRS) and the first of the “Optical Intersatellite Communication System” (LUCAS). Credit: (c)nvs-l