Japan scrubs spy satellite launch
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Bad weather, no new date set Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a new spy satellite. Japanese space agency JAXA scrubbed the launch shortly before the rocket carrying the satellite was due to blast off from Tanegashima island.â¦
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Japan&#39;s military yesterday shadowed an unidentified submarine that entered its territorial waters the day before, but officials said they had not yet figured out what country the intruder was from.
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The new Japanese spacecraft sent into orbit in September to study the Sun has returned its first scientific data.
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Japan is preparing to launch this week its first lunar explorer, in a bid to get the country's space program back on track after a string of failures in the last decade.
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Activity around North Korea's missile launch sites is tailing off, calming fears of a ballistic missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday, citing government sources.
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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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Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, which gives its the capability to observe any location around the globe.
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Japan's space agency said Wednesday it was delaying the launch of a satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia due to a technical problem with its rocket.
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A U.S. spy satellite is expected to crash back to Earth as early as next month. Another thing to worry about? Not quite
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2nd Ld-Writethru: Japan launches H-2A rocket    TOKYO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched on Monday afternoon an H-2A rocket carrying the country's biggest ever satellite from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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Japan will seek an explanation at weekend talks with North Korea on activity indicating Pyongyang may be preparing a missile test, although Tokyo does not think a launch is imminent, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman said.
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Russia's domestic security service said  on Friday it had foiled several attempts by foreign spies to  obtain technology for weapons of mass destruction, RIA news  agency reported.
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Japan prepared to launch its third  intelligence-gathering satellite on Monday, enhancing its  ability to monitor neighbouring North Korea two months after  Pyongyang shocked the region with a barrage of missile tests.
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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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Japan successfully intercepted a ballistic missile in its first test launch of the US-developed SM-3 missile interceptor system from a warship in waters off Hawaii, reports said Tuesday.
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Navy Self-defence force in 100-mile-high skeet shoot Japan has become the second nation to acquire functioning ballistic-missile defence equipment, carrying out a successful shootdown yesterday. A target rocket representing a medium-range enemy missile was engaged and destroyed 100 miles above the Pacific by a Standard SM-3 interceptor fired from a Japanese warship, JS Kongo. The target took off from the US Navy missile range facility on Kauai, Hawaii.â¦