Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a high‑stakes mission and leaving a navigation satellite stranded short of orbit. The ...

The H3 rocket launched on Sunday at 8:51 p.m. ET from the Tanegashima Space Center, located on a southwestern Japanese island. The rocket’s second-stage engine burn failed to ignite on time, resulting ...

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that ...

A Japanese ‍H3 rocket could not put ​a ⁠navigation satellite into orbit after engine trouble, Japan's ​Aerospace ...

The Japanese H3 rocket failed to place the government-operated QZS-5 satellite into orbit due to engine issues. This failure typically prompts extensive investigations, potentially delaying Japan's ...

Failure is inevitable, aerospace experts say, so Japan needs to be less afraid of making mistakes and move on.