JAXA said in a statement it would delay the first test flight
from the current fiscal year that ends on March 31, to fiscal
2021, and the second test flight by a year to fiscal 2022.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd is a prime contractor for the
rocket.
(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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