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=== OICETS and INDEX === On 24 August 2005, JAXA launched the experimental satellites [[OICETS]] and [[Reimei|INDEX]] on a Ukrainian [[Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr rocket]]. OICETS (Kirari) is a mission tasked with testing optical links with the [[European Space Agency]] (ESA) [[ARTEMIS]] satellite, which is around 40,000 km away from OICETS. The experiment was successful on 9 December, when the link could be established. In March 2006, JAXA could establish with OICETS the worldwide first optical links between a LEO satellite and a ground station first in Japan and in June 2006 with a mobile station in Germany. INDEX (Reimei) is a small 70 kg satellite for testing various equipment, and functions as an [[Aurora (astronomy)|aurora]] observation mission as well. The Reimei satellite is currently in its extended mission phase.
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