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Japan Delays First H2A Launch
Tokyo (AFP) December 8, 1999 - Japan on Wednesday postponed the launch of a next-generation rocket scheduled for February next year following a spectacular failure last month, officials said."We will put off the launch because we need more time to look into the factors behind the failure," said a spokeswoman for the National Space Development Agency (NASDA). "Now we are considering launching the rocket in a period between April 2000 and March 2001," the spokeswoman said. NASDA originally planned to launch a next-generation H-2-A rocket in February. But on November 15, space authorities had to explode a 24-billion-yen (229-million-dollar) H-2 rocket and satellite when the rocket's main engine failed, pushing it off course after liftoff. The explosion was the second successive failure in the costly H-2 rocket project after a 36-million-dollar satellite was lost in space despite a successful separation from the rocket in February 1998. The last launch was the seventh blast-off since 1994 of the Japanese H-2 rocket, supposed to be a fully-Japanese built rival to the successful European Ariane-4.
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Tokyo (AFP November 19, 1999 - Japan's top science bureaucrat resigned Friday after overseeing both the nation's worst-ever nuclear accident and an embarassing rocket launch failure in the past two months. Toshio Okazaki, the administrative vice minister for science and technology, has tendered his resignation, officials said.