Launched on September 14, 2007, by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kaguya is Japan’s second lunar orbiter spacecraft. It was lifted into space on an H-IIA carrier rocket from Tanegashima Space Center. It mission includes measuring the distribution of various elements and filming high-definition television images of the moon surface. These are expected to unveil some of the mysteries surrounding the origins of the Moon and its geologic evolution. JAXA sees the Kaguya project as “the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program.”