Japan postpones launch of 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.

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