November 25, 2015
Japan's H-IIA rocket successfully launched Japan's first commercial satellite this past week: a Canadian Telstar 12V telecommunications payload. All prior Japanese launches have been with government payloads.
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002584098
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/japanese-h-iia-telstar-12v-launch/
China's Long March 3B booster has launched the first satellite on behalf of Laos: the LaoSat-1 communications satellite, built by the China Academy of Space Technology.
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/chinas-long-march-3b-rocket-successfully-launches-first-laotian-satellite/
As time runs out for the solar-powered Rosetta comet mission, controllers at ESA have sent the space probe on a final attempt to locate its inoperative Philae landing probe.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Science/article1635791.ece
NASA has released the first images of Ceres polar regions, as captured by the Dawn space probe. The photographs portray a heavily cratered region.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3330244/See-pockmarked-poles-Ceres-unprecedented-Nasa-s-Dawn-probe-releases-images-polar-regions.html
As its orbit decays, the Martian moon Phobos is expected to eventually break-up, forming a rocky ring around the red planet.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mars-may-become-a-ringed-planet-someday/?WT.mc_id=SA_Home_CNav
NASA has released a collection of Pluto photographs that portray a full rotation or "day" on the dwarf planet, as it spins about its axis.
http://www.sci-news.com/space/new-horizons-full-day-pluto-charon-03454.html
http://www.babwnews.com/2015/11/stunning-new-horizons-photos-depict-a-full-day-on-pluto/
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