REUTERS
August 28, 2023 at 09:55 JST
Japan’s H-IIA rocket No. 46 carrying an intelligence satellite blasts off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Jan. 26. (Eiji Hori)
Japan's space agency suspended a planned launch on Monday of an H-IIA rocket that was to carry a moon lander into space, according to launch operator Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).
The launch was cancelled because wind conditions in the upper atmosphere did not satisfy constraints, MHI’s launch services unit said in a post on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, 24 minutes before the planned launch time.
H-IIA No. 47 was planned to be launched from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 9:26 a.m. local time (0026 GMT) on Monday.
MHI will provide further details, JAXA said during its YouTube livestream.
The rocket is carrying JAXA's lunar landing spacecraft Smart Lander for Investigating Moon.
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