Brief: Canon is helping Japan build a low-cost "mini-rocket" for future satellite launches - Nikkei

Canon Electronics

01/12/2016 17:03

Dec 1 (Reuters) -  
    * Canon Inc is helping Japan build a low-cost "mini-rocket" 
for future satellite launches - Nikkei 
    * IHI unit, IHI Aerospace is handling development of key 
engine parts for the rocket such as a fuel injector -  Nikkei 
    * Initial launch of the rocket is slated for early next year 
from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture -Nikkei 
    * Engineers from Canon's unit, Canon Electronics, have 
joined a team led by JAXA, that is building the rocket - Nikkei 
 
Source text - http://s.nikkei.com/2gDwv4L 
 
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