Japan moon mission launch on Thursday
Published: 04:09 PM,Sep 04,2023 | EDITED : 08:09 PM,Sep 04,2023
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday it planned to launch its H-IIA rocket carrying a moon lander on Thursday morning, after unfavourable wind conditions led to a postponement last month.
The rocket is scheduled to take off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 8:42 am JST (Wednesday 2342 GMT), with a launch window open until September 15, the company said. The new schedule was announced a week after the previous launch attempt, which would have carried Japan’s first spacecraft to land on the moon, was suspended because of high winds.
The rocket is scheduled to take off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 8:42 am JST (Wednesday 2342 GMT), with a launch window open until September 15, the company said. The new schedule was announced a week after the previous launch attempt, which would have carried Japan’s first spacecraft to land on the moon, was suspended because of high winds.