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Japan’s space agency announced Thursday it will launch its next-generation H3 rocket in February after two failed attempts early this year.<\/p>\n
The rocket, billed as a flexible and cost-effective new flagship, is scheduled to lift off between 9:22 am and 1:06 pm (0022 and 0406 GMT) on February 15 from the southern island of Tanegashima, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a press release.<\/p>\n
The third launch attempt comes after the spacecraft was forced to self-destruct in March when the command center concluded its mission could not succeed.<\/p>\n
A first attempted launch in February, already delayed by several years, failed when the solid rocket boosters did not ignite.<\/p>\n
Developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the H3 is the successor to the H-IIA launch system, which debuted in 2001.<\/p>\n
Following the previous failures, the rocket will now carry an instrument to check rocket performance, along with two small secondary satellites.<\/p>\n
Japan succeeded in putting its SLIM space probe\u2014nicknamed the “Moon Sniper”\u2014into the moon’s orbit this week, but the country has been plagued by a series of space failures.<\/p>\n
Last year, the normally reliable solid-fuel Epsilon rocket self-destructed after detecting trouble.<\/p>\n
And in July, a test of an Epsilon S rocket, an improved version of the Epsilon, ended in an explosion 50 seconds after ignition.<\/p>\n
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