According to launch operator Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), on Monday, the Japan space agency suspended a scheduled launch on Monday of an H-IIA rocket that was to hold a moon lander into space.
The launch was canceled because wind conditions in the upper climate conditions did not satisfy constraints, MHI’s takeoff services unit said in a post on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter) 30 minutes before the scheduled launch duration.
On Monday, H-IIA No. 47 was scheduled 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).
JAXA said during its YouTube livestream that MHI will deliver additional details.
The rocket is holding JAXA’s lunar landing spacecraft Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) and an X-ray imaging satellite.
