Japan’s much larger H3 rocket, failed in its debut launch in February 2023 but has since made three consecutive successful flights, most recently earlier in November.

But so far there’s been a crucial element missing from Japan’s commercial space aspirations, an orbital booster rocket. While the country has state-funded launch vehicles such as the H-IIA and ...

Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space ...

The Epsilon rocket, jointly developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and IHI Aerospace, also lacks a clear operational outlook. Although the investigation into the cause of the ...

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 ...

Japan was forced to blow up its new rocket during a failed launch on Tuesday, setting back efforts to crack a market led by Elon Musk's Space X. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says the H3 ...

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Japan's 50th and final H-IIA rocket will be launched on June 24 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, officials said Wednesday. After the launch, the H-IIA rocket series will ...

Japanese versions of the Pokémon card Team Rocket's Mewtwo are selling for hundreds of dollars online, in the first week ...

is trying to become Japan's first company to put a satellite into orbit -- with some difficulty so far. Last month, Space One's solid-fuel Kairos rocket blasted off from a private launchpad in ...