Japan's H-2A rocket blasts off

A H-2A rocket carrying four satellites including one from South Korea blasts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, about 1,000km (621 miles) southwest of Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo on May 18, 2012. The rocket made by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. blast off on early Friday carrying one South Korean satellite and Japanese water monitoring satellies. [Photo/Agencies]