Japan Launches H2-A Rocket After Two-Day Delay
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tanegashima Island, Japan, 18 December: An H-2A rocket carrying Japan's biggest satellite was launched Monday [18 December] from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture after a two-day delay due to bad weather.
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Bad weather forced Japan on Friday to  postpone the launch of a fourth spy satellite that will expand  its ability to monitor potential threats including North Korea,  whose missile arsenal can reach all of Japan.
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About 11,000 gallons of rocket fuel spilled during fueling of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2 rocket on Saturday, forcing a one-day delay in the launch of the rocket carrying a classified U.S. spy satellite, company officials said.
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New China News Agency reported that the satellite was set into orbit by a &#39;Long Walking- 2C&#39; rocket. The satellite was launched at 15:50 local time (10:50 in Turkey) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center in Gansu province in northwestern China.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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Tokyo, Dec. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's space agency on Monday successfully launched a 5.8-ton experimental telecommunications satellite, the nation's largest satellite to date.  A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the No.
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An unmanned Russian rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned after liftoff Thursday and crashed in Kazakhstan, officials said. Nobody was hurt, but the crash triggered concerns in Kazakhstan about environmental damage from toxic rocket fuel.
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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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The rocket was launched from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil to conduct experiments just outside Earth&#39;s atmosphere. The launch Saturday came 14 months after a deadly rocket explosion at the Altcantara
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2nd Ld-Writethru: Japan launches spy satellite successfully    TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan successfully launched a spy satellite with an H-2A rocket on Monday from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan's Kagoshima prefecture, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said.
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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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China launched an experimental satellite into orbit Sunday, atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket; reported Xinhua, China&#39;s government-run news agency.
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Mount Asama, one of Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, spewed gray smoke nearly a mile into the air Wednesday as it erupted for the second straight day.
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RBC, 09.11.2004, Moscow 09:25:54.Russia has successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2-1A. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm from the Plesetsk launch pad carrying a satellite model.
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After a series of delays, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying a Global Positioning System satellite for the Air Force roared into space early Saturday.
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A satellite-alert system launches in quake-prone Japan that will instantly trigger tsunami and volcanic activity warnings by siren and radio to help speed evacuations. By the Associated Press.
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North Korea test launched a missile early Wednesday morning that landed in the Sea of Japan, Japanese media reported.