STORY:
Y2K Problems with Japanese Satellite

According to an Associated Press report, Japan's government-run space development agency will suspend experiments aboard two unmanned satellites by late November because of glitches related to the Year 2000 computer problem.

Japan successfully linked a pair of satellites twice last summer, the first ever such outer space maneuver conducted via remote control from Earth. Though the satellites will have enough power to conduct further testing, additional experiments will be temporarily halted from around December.

In the report, a spokesman of the National Space Development Agency said the agency has yet to address the Y2K problem as it relates to control computers on the ground, although the two orbiting satellites are free from the so-called "millennium bug."

Source: Associated Press / CNN

DATE: 3/08/99

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