Fishery Objections Block Recovery of H-IIA Nozzles

A busy tuna-fishing season has blocked Japanese space agency JAXA's desire to recover the two solid rocket booster motors from the seventh H-IIA, which was launched Feb. 26. JAXA wanted to examine the SRBs for physical evidence that a redesign of their exhaust nozzles was performing as expected. A...

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