JAXA To Search For Recent H-IIA First-Stage Solid Rocket Booster Motors

The Japanese space agency JAXA says it will search a 33 X 122-km. (20 X 69-mi.) splashdown area south of Kyushu island for the solid rocket booster motors from the first stage of the H-IIA launched on Feb. 26. There's no indication of any abnormalities in their performance. But JAXA wants to examine...

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