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Smoke of ignition at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's first H3 Launch Vehicle with Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3 "DAICHI-3" (ALOS-3) onboard is seen at Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, February 17, 2023. /CFP
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Saturday postponed the launch of its flagship H3 rocket by a day to Tuesday due to bad weather, after aborting a launch last month due to technical trouble.
The rocket, whose launch has been delayed a number of times for multiple system glitches and bad weather, is now set to take off on Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center launch site in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, sometime between 10:37 a.m. and 10:44 a.m., JAXA said.
JAXA halted the initially planned launch moments before lift-off on February 17 when the secondary booster engines on the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rocket failed to ignite.
The space agency said on Friday that a new launch had been slated for Monday morning after determining that the technical glitch could be resolved by tweaking the software.
The H3 rocket, Japan's successor to the H2A rocket, its previous mainstay launch vehicle, will carry a land observation satellite as its payload on the first launch, which is designed to assist in disaster management situations.
(With input from Xinhua)
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