Japan launches a navigation satellite on a new flagship rocket for an improved positioning system

TOKIO (AP) – On Sunday, Japan launched a navigation satellite on the new H3 pioneering missile While the country seeks to obtain a more accurate location system.

The Michibiki 6 satellite missile was successfully lifted from the Tanegashima Space Center on a Japanese island southwest. The space exploration agency in Japan, or everything so far as planned.

Japan currently has a semi -zenith satellite system, or QZSS, with four satellites for the regional navigation system that entered for the first time in 2018. Michibiki 6 will be the fifth of its network.

Michebeki’s signals of the American GPS supplement are used to improve GPS data for smartphones, cars, maritime navigation and drones.

Japan plans to launch two satellites for navigation campaigns to create a seven -market system by March 2026 in order to obtain more accurate global positioning ability without relying on foreign services, including the United States, according to the Science and Technology Agency in Japan. By the late thirties of the twentieth century, Japan plans to obtain a network of 11 bottoms.

The launch of Sunday, which was delayed by one day due to the fourth consecutive weather on the successful flight of H3 after a shock Trying for the first time failed Last year, when the missile had to be destroyed by its load.

Japan sees a stable and competitive capacity as a key to its space and national security program, and it has developed two new leading missiles as the backgrounds of the H2A series – Akbar H3 and A. Much smaller Epsilon system. It hopes to meet the various customer needs and improve its position in the growing satellite launch market.