Japan Plans Mars Craft
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TOKYO — Japan plans to launch a spacecraft to orbit the planet Mars in 1996, the Institute of Space and Astronomical Science said Saturday.
The orbiter, to be named “Planet B,” will be launched from a Japanese space center in the summer of 1996 and will orbit the red planet by October, 1997, the institute said.
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