KhalifaSat successfully launches into space from Japan - in pictures

The first entirely UAE-made satellite hailed as an 'unprecedented Emirati achievement' by the country's leaders

Japan's rocket H-2A is launched, carrying aboard a green gas observing satellite "Ibuki-2" and KhalifaSat, a UAE satellite, Tanegashima, southern Japan, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The Japanese rocket carrying United Arab Emirates' first locally-made satellite has successfully lifted off from a space center in southern Japan. (Nozomi Endo/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan's rocket H-IIA, carrying KhalifaSat, is launched, from Tanegashima, southern Japan, on Monday. Nozomi Endo / Kyodo News via AP

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Oct 29, 2018

The most sophisticated satellite built by the UAE was successfully launched from an island off the southern tip of Japan this morning, in a new landmark for the country’s space programme.

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