Japan to use U.S. weather satellite until MT-SAT launch
TOKYO - The Japan Meteorological Agency will pay nearly $6 million to use a reserve U.S. weather satellite to make up for the loss of its Multifunction Transport Satellite (MT-SAT). The MT-SAT was lost during a failed 1999 launch. Since that loss, Japan has relied on its aging GMS-5 satellite, which...
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