Japan’s space program has been marred by recent failures. In February, the H3 rocket launch was aborted for a glitch. Liftoff a month later succeeded, but the rocket had to be destroyed after its ...

The H3 left the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 9:22 ... failures hit two of the rocket’s secondary booster engines. Saturday’s successful launch is a second win for JAXA in ...

Japan was forced to blow up its new rocket during a failed launch on ... Had the mission succeeded, Jaxa said it had planned to launch the H3 around six times a year for the next two decades.

TOBISHIMA, Aichi Prefecture--Japan’s space agency and its prime contractor said Thursday they hope to be able to forge a profitable launch business with their new H3 rocket after its first ...

Japan in particular has been ... an orbital booster rocket. While the country has state-funded launch vehicles such as the H-IIA and H3 rockets, they come with the usual bureaucracy one would ...

Space One’s ‘Kairos’ rocket burst into flames shortly after lift-off in western Japan on Wednesday. The explosion left a large plume of smoke in the air and sent fiery debris flying near the ...

Japan successfully sends new H3 rocket into orbit in key test after ... North Korea fails to launch rocket containing the country’s first military spy satellite South Korea's military says ...

More recently in April, a private Japanese start-up, iSpace, failed to land its Hakuto-R lander after it too lost contact with the spacecraft. Two test rocket launches have alsofailed this year ...

(Kyodo) WAKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese private startup Space One Co. said Sunday that it is planning to launch a rocket in December, after its attempt to send a satellite-carrying projectile earlier ...

TOKYO, March 13. /TASS/. The launch of the first commercial Japanese rocket, carried out by Space One, was a failure. The rocket exploded several seconds after the launch. The rocket fragments ...

The failure of Japan’s new rocket series, already long delayed, was a setback for the country’s space program.