Officially understood as SELENE, which is brief for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, it was Japans second moon mission.Kaguya introduced from Tanegashima Space Center on a Japanese H-IIA rocket and looped around the Earth two times prior to heading to the moon. It carried 14 science instruments and two microsatellites to map the moons surface and study its gravitational field.An H-2A rocket releases Japans Kaguya/SELENE spacecraft toward the moon on Sept. 14 (Local Time) from Tanegashima Space. On This Day in Space Archive!Still not enough space?
