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Japan Rocket Lifts Supplies To Space Station After Foreign Failures

KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN - AUG. 19: Japan successfully launched a rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Wednesday, the nation's space agency said, after similar missions by other countries failed recently. The H2B rocket lifted off at 8:50 p.m. Japan time, delivering the Konotori 5 cargo transporter into orbit some 15 minutes later, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA said. The unmanned transporter, carrying 5.5 tons of supplies and experimental equipment, is due to reach the ISS, which flies about 400 kilometers above Earth, at around 8 p.m. Monday.

Rocket launch postponement

KIMOTSUKI, Japan - Professor Yasuhiro Morita of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency speaks during a press conference at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Aug. 30, 2013. He offered an explanation for the postponement of the launch of Japan's new rocket Epsilon.

Japan postpones launch of new rocket Epsilon

KIMOTSUKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 1:51 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2013, shows the new rocket Epsilon at the Uchinoura Space Center in the town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, which was scheduled to lift off at 1:45 p.m. The state-run Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency postponed at the last minute the launch of the new type of solid-fuel rocket carrying the world's first space telescope for observing planets.

Japan postpones launch of new rocket Epsilon

KIMOTSUKI, Japan - Photo taken at 1:45 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2013, shows the new rocket Epsilon at the Uchinoura Space Center in the town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, which was scheduled to lift off at that time. The state-run Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency postponed at the last minute the launch of the new type of solid-fuel rocket carrying the world's first space telescope for observing planets.

Japan postpones launch of new rocket Epsilon

KIMOTSUKI, Japan - People watch the new rocket Epsilon in the town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2013, after the scheduled time for liftoff from the Uchinoura Space Center. The state-run Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency postponed at the last minute the launch of the new type of solid-fuel rocket carrying the world's first space telescope for observing planets.