The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has decided not to launch its new flagship hydrogen-powered H3 series rocket due to weather conditions at the launch site. In this respect reports Associated Press (AP) news agency.
The device was supposed to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center site in the southern Japanese archipelago on Thursday, February 15, but the mission was paused due to a storm expected to be accompanied by strong winds. The date of the new initiative has not yet been announced.
JAXA wants to ensure success in testing the H3 rocket after the disastrous test last March, in which the prototype and the ALOS-3 Advanced Remote Sensing Satellite had to be destroyed with a self-destruct order.
To minimize the consequences of a possible failure, during the next launch H3 will be equipped with a 2.6-ton mock-up of the ALOS satellite. The rocket will also carry two functional microsurveillance satellites built by Canon Electronics and Seiren.
H3 missiles should replace the previous generation H-2A. The new version was developed by JAXA together with industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The cost of the project was approximately 1.5 billion dollars.
happened before knownIt turned out that the reason for the unsuccessful launch of the first H3 rocket was a malfunction in the power supply system.
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