Satellite News

JAXA has decided to delay the flight of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA 204 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center owing to encroaching rough weather. A new launch date of the X-ray Astronomy Satellite (ASTRO-H) has not been announced.

Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover.