I'm not sure, but I think an H2 rocket just lifted off from Tanegashima in Kagoshima Prefecture. Tanegashima is like Japan's version of the US's Kennedy Space Center. I'm on the Japanese space agency's, NEXA, email list and knew the launch window for their new satellite was from 8/19-8/23. Anyways, I was out exploring Mori-machi at dusk, one of Kusu's more picturesque wards, and saw the streak against the sky. A contrail thicker than I'd ever seen and stretching from horizon to horizon, originating in the southern direction of Tanegashima. Someday I'll actually head down there and watch a rocket launch.
--Matt
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