Japan postpones launch again Epsilon-1

The 19 seconds into the launch, the system failed. The Japan postponed, for the second time this month, the launch of Epsilon-1, the rocket that would put into orbit the first space telescope remote planetary observation.

The device should have been released at 1:45 pm local time, shortly before 6 a.m. hour from Lisbon, the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima. But according to Japan's Aerospace Agency, the system automatically stopped because of a problem with the inclination of the projectile. The body will investigate what was at the root of this failure and does not advance to any date for a new release.

On the first attempt held on August 22, the Epsilon-1 never left the ground because the Japanese Agency detected a malfunction in the electrical circuit of the communications equipment. These consecutive failures pose a serious blow on Japanese aerospace industry which has invested many millions on this project since 2003.

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