Japan’s Lunar Probe Satellite Successfully Put into Orbit

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said they successfully launched a lunar probe satellite into orbit.

The Selenological and Engineering Explorer was injected into a lunar orbit with an Apogee altitude of 11,741 km and an Perigee altitude of 101 km. Its period is 16 hours and 42 minutes.

I do speak Japanese, but I don't speak rocket science.

Translation anyone?

The satellite is named "Kaguya" after an ancient Japanese fable.

It left earth on Sept 14th with an H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center.

The lunar orbit injection happened on Oct. 4th.

Kaguya is equipped with 14 scientific instruments and a high-definition televison camera.

The $474 million project will start its 10-month mission in December to collect lunar features to determine the origina and evolution of the moon.

I could have saved them a lot of money. The answer to that question is in the first few verses of Genesis.

Do you believe in evolution?