Старый>> Так, так, ну и чего? Дефекты оказались липовыми? И какова нынешняя судьба проекта? Муг пропил клапана и Лунар-А никуда не летит?
Даже интересно стало, как НАСА вредит японцам в запуске Селны...
Вот тут написано, что японцам не хватило денег и не заладилась интеграция информационного обеспечения. Ясненько, значит американцы пробрались к японцам в банк и украли деньги на запуск ракеты, а потом ещё компьютерный вирус им в спутник запустили, и он японцам все потёр и пожёг...
AP:
Japan’s moon mission
faces further delay
Financial and technical setbacks
reported for Lunar-A probe
JAXA
Updated: 7:49 p.m. ET Aug 11, 2004
TOKYO - A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, released a report to a government-run commission explaining expected delays to the launch of the $135 million Lunar-A probe.
Earlier this year, an agency committee said it would be "difficult" for the probe to be launched as scheduled this summer from a space center in southern Japan because some of its thruster valves have been recalled for potential defects by their U.S. manufacturer, Moog Inc.
О, а тут оказывается НАСА напустило ветер, дождь и молнии на японский стартовый комплекс. Как хитро! Ведь никто никогда не догадается, что это НАСА, скажут: "погода, не повезло". Хорошо нас аФон+ просветил...
AP:
Japanese space officials hope for a break
Agency copes with launch delays and China’s rapid rise on final frontier
Katsumi Kasahara / AP
Updated: 9:19 p.m. CT Jan 19, 2006
TANEGASHIMA, Japan - First, a technical glitch forced the launch date to be set back. Then a thunderstorm came in and hit this remote island in southern Japan with buckets of rain and howling winds.
Fighting to get back on schedule after a fiery failure two years ago and running well behind China in Asia's budding space race, Japan's space agency is praying for sunshine — and a little bit of luck.
"Weather is our main problem right now, but you have to always keep the other possible problems in mind," Tatsuo Oshima, a spokesman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Thursday as the rocket remained in its hangar.
Спасибо, аФон!