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Faulty Chips Delay Launch of Japanese Imaging Satellite

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The Japanese government has decided to postpone the launch of the nation’s next reconnaissance satellite by six months or more following the discovery of potentially defective integrate-circuits in the satellite, a government official said August 26.

The Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, which is in charge of the nation’s Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) program, decided Aug. 25 to postpone the launch of what would be the nation’s third reconnaissance satellite in orbit after deciding it was necessary to replace a number of field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips made by Actel Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., according to Yasuhiro Itakura, research officer at Japan’s Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, which is part of the Cabinet Office. (...)