The rocket was carrying a Japanese broadcasting satellite.

A commercial rocket carrying a Japanese broadcasting satellite tumbled out of control shortly after liftoff today, and both were destroyed, launching officials said.

With hundreds of channels available through fiber-optic telephone lines, direct broadcasting satellites and other alternative delivery systems, traditional broadcasting may be replaced by networks of quite a different sort.

After that, the first Japanese experimental broadcasting satellite, called BSE or Yuri, was launched in 1978.

A multimillion-dollar Japanese broadcasting satellite was aboard the rocket.

There was a small earth station hidden in the woods, but there were no broadcasting satellites for 3V anymore.

The broadcasting satellites are geostationary, which causes them to be less than 10 above the horizon for locations north of 71.4 latitude.

The problems started a year ago, when Japan tried to send aloft a broadcasting satellite aboard an Arianespace rocket, built by the French-led European space group.

This month, NHK's main broadcasting satellite moved into a phase of its orbit that received less direct sunlight.

He activated the weapon and destroyed the government's broadcasting satellites, enabling Jupiter to take over the airwaves and announce his succession.