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Pair of Launches Delayed
The launch of NASA‘s New Horizons mission to Pluto was delayed for the second straight day after NASA’s mission control center at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory lost power the morning of Jan. 18. The scheduled launch Tuesday, Jan. 17 was delayed by high winds at the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
The Jan. 19 launch window opens at 1:08 p.m. EST and runs through 3:07 p.m.
New Horizons, NASA’s first mission to Pluto, will be launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket provided by International Launch Services. The satellite will use multiple instruments to study the planet and its moon Charon when it arrives in 2015.
Separately, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite indefinitely due to a problem with the telemetry transmitter aboard the H-2A launch vehicle, JAXA announced Jan. 18.
The launch had been scheduled for Jan. 19 from the Tanegashima Space Center.
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