The launch of a radar satellite aboard an H-IIA rocket has been pushed back a day after inclement weather was forecast for Sunday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Saturday.
The launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture will now take place between 10:21 and 10:35 a.m. Monday.
The radar satellite is part of a government program aimed at enhancing its intelligence-gathering capabilities, but is also said to be useful for collecting data on natural disasters. The program was launched after North Korea in 1998 fired a Taepodong-1 ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.