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日本有关官员今年5月13日说,由于美航宇局“挑战者”号航天飞机的爆炸,日本已转向参加与欧洲卫星国际财团的国际合作,并将由该国际组织发射第一颗日本商用通信卫星。设在巴黎的阿里安航天公司宣布,该公司在5月12日已和日本通信卫星公司达成了一项协议。日本通信卫星公司发言人说,该公司曾计划在1987年12月由航宇局发射第一颗商用通信卫星。但是,由于出现“挑战者”号航天飞机爆炸而引起的意外推迟,日本决定改用“阿里安”火箭发射。日本通信官员拒绝
Japanese officials said on May 13 this year that Japan has turned to participate in international cooperation with the European Satellite Consortium due to the explosion of the NASA Space Challenger space shuttle and will launch the first Japanese commercial communications satellite. Arion Aerospace, based in Paris, announced that it had reached an agreement with Japan Communications Satellite Co. on May 12. A spokesman for Japan Communications Satellite said the company had planned to launch the first commercial communications satellite by NASA in December 1987. However, because of the unexpected delay caused by the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, Japan decided to switch to using the “Arian” rocket launch. Japanese communications officials refused