Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite to launch on October 1

Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite is expected to be launched into orbit with eight other Japanese satellites at the Uchinoura Space Center launch site in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture on October 1. The Made-in-Vietnam satellite was transported from Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita Airport on August 11. NanoDragon is a nano-class cubesat satellite weighing 3.8 kilograms and was developed by the Vietnam Space Center at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.