Hughes dumps its block of 10 H-IIA launches

Hughes has relinquished its block of 10 firm launches on Japan's H-IIA rocket, choosing not to spend money to hold space on an untried follow-on to a vehicle that failed in its final two launch attempts. The news, reported first in Tokyo by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, follows by a week the...

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