Japan launches space rocket to improve Internet coverage

With the intention of expanding its coverage of broadband communications from South America to the Middle East, Japan has launched on Tuesday a H- IIA rocket, on its first exclusively commercial mission. The mission carries a Canadian satellite.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are behind the launch of the telecommunications and broadcasting satellite, Telesat . The historic launch took place from the space center in Tanegashima Island in the Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima.