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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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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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tanegashima Island, Japan, 11 September: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a rocket carrying an intelligence- gathering satellite from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday [11 September].
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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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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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Urgent: Japan launches spy satellite with H-2A rocket    TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan 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 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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A Japanese government panel has approved plans to send two spy satellites into Earth's orbit beginning next year, a media report said Wednesday.
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The nation's top spy announced he canceled a controversial, $9 billion dollar spy satellite program. Congressional critics called the Misty satellite ineffective and redundant.
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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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A government panel Wednesday approved plans to send a weather satellite into Earth's orbit by February 2005, in the first scheduled launch for Japan's troubled space program since late last year, an official said.
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Japan's biggest satellite, launched last  year and designed to improve mobile phone communications, has a  technical glitch on one of its massive antennas, Kyodo news  agency reported on Friday.
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A large spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit earth in late February or March, government officials said.
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Israel's latest and most advanced spy satellite - Ofeq 6 - has been destroyed during launch.
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China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.
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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 launches a rocket carrying its third spy satellite, increasing its ability to monitor North Korea.