V is for Victory?

From Matsuura's blog. Prof. Matogawa poised "V" to the streaming video. The projectile was fired. Confirmed at 8:45. All conditions nominal.

Wao, they did it, didn' they?

Final confirmations must wait until the downlink via high gain antenna communication. Press briefing should start around 11am or noon I believe.

Unfortunately I must leave home now. There are good discussions and voluntary translations going on at Unmanned Spaceflight.com, and other voluntary translations on the comments area of Matsuura's blog. Yes, I will give you yet another "Zabuton 5 Mai" for the Lipo-D gag team! ;-)

5thstar is signing off.