The No. 10 H3 rocket carrying the Martian Moons eXploration, or MMX, probe lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture early Tuesday.
Makoto Arita, manager of JAXA's H3 project team (second from left), and Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, professor at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science who leads the MMX mission (third from left), pose for a photo after a press conference at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Tuesday morning.
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