Japanese Lunar Probe Mission Facing Delays
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A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday.    The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, released a report to a government-run commission explaining expected delays to the launch of the $135 million Lunar-A probe...
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Japan's space agency said the mid-August launch of its lunar orbiter will be postponed due to a technical glitch, delivering another setback to the much-delayed probe.
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The craft that is to replace the space shuttle could be delayed because of recent budget reductions, the NASA administrator said.
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NASA has decided to delay the Atlantis shuttle landing by 24 hours, from Wednesday to Thursday, over concerns about a floating object discovered near the orbiter and unfavorable weather conditions, a spokesman said.
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KADENA AIR BASE, Japan  - The arrival of 12 U.S. F-22 fighter planes at a U.S. air base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was delayed on Sunday without word on a new date for their first deployment outside the United States.
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The launch of a Russian rocket scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station next month has been postponed because of problems with the docking system, Russia's space agency said on Wednesday.
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NASA on Monday announced it was delaying until Thursday the launch of the space probe Dawn on its eight-year mission aimed at unlocking the mysteries of the origins of our solar system.
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Japan's space agency launches its first lunar orbiter for a year-long mission to explore the moon.
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Device will be launched in Japan before the end of the year, but plans for a U.S. launch are uncertain.
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NASA has delayed the launching of a mission to Mars to 2013 because of an undisclosed conflict of interest involved in one of two final proposals, officials said.
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All systems are finally go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, which is scheduled for launch on August 16, officials announced yesterday.
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Probing X-Prizes Everyone is going to the moon. Japan has launched its first lunar probe, Selene, and the X-Prize foundation has persuaded Google to put up a $30m fund to reward any private enterprise that manages to land a probe in lunar-land.â¦
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NASA officials on Monday postponed for a day the launch of an unmanned experimental jet that would have attempted to shoot out across the Pacific Ocean at a record speed of more than 7,000 mph after an apparent glitch with its electronics systems.
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A software glitch has delayed the deployment of the new solar arrays recently installed by Atlantis astronauts on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
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The planned weekend launch of a spacecraft to explore two of the solar system's largest asteroids was delayed again because of problems with a tracking ship and aircraft.
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NASA on Sunday delayed the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis until at least Jan. 2 to give engineers time to diagnose and fix its balky fuel tank sensors.
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Scientists give details of a Japanese mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.