Budget Pressure Takes Toll on Hope Program

Under ever-tightening budget pressure, Japan's Space Activities Commission and National Space Development Agency have postponed launch of the nation's first spaceplane by three years, to 2003. Hope-X was first intended as a test article that would be launched in 1999 for a more elaborate Hope (H-2...

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