Japan has had to postpone the launch of its Akatsuki mission to Venus.
Poor weather at the Tanegashima spaceport early on Tuesday morning (local time) prevented the probe from leaving Earth on its H-IIA rocket.
Mission controllers have a window that stretches into early June to get Akatsuki away and on to its six-month cruise to the inner world.
Having studied the forecasts, they will now target a launch at 0658 on Friday local time (2158 GMT Thursday).
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10119840.stm
Poor weather at the Tanegashima spaceport early on Tuesday morning (local time) prevented the probe from leaving Earth on its H-IIA rocket.
Mission controllers have a window that stretches into early June to get Akatsuki away and on to its six-month cruise to the inner world.
Having studied the forecasts, they will now target a launch at 0658 on Friday local time (2158 GMT Thursday).
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10119840.stm
