Japanese spy satellites launch to be delayed
Posted on: Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 06:00 CDT
Japanese spy satellites launch to be delayed
TOKYO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The launch of two spy satellites will be delayed due to technical problems of an H-2A rocket, said the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) on Tuesday.
"Some additional work needs to be done on a solid rocket booster," said a NASDA official.
The spy satellites, scheduled to blast off for Sept. 10 at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, are equipped separately with an optical imaging detector and a radar imaging detector.
Japan already launched two similar ones in March.
The satellites are believed to serve to watch the Democratic People's Republic of Korea following its launch of a rocket in 1998, which Japan claimed was a ballistic missile.
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