Mar 26 1981
From The Space Library
Japan's National Space Development Agency conducted, for the first time, a successful 30-second firing test of its huge H-1 liquid-fuel rocket. Japan's LE5 engine fueled with liquid oxygen and hydrogen would serve as the second stage of H-1, which was scheduled to launch a 500-ton satellite into orbit in February 1986. Japan was now the fourth country to have a liquid hydrogen engine; in addition to the United States, ESA, and China. (FBIS, Tokyo Kyodo in English, Mar 26/81)
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