[RightWhale]

I don't know why the article was formatted into such haiku regular paragraphs. The Japanese big launcher has been nothing but trouble. Seems strange for a Japanese tech product to be having such trouble, although it may be a case of government projects simply being of lower quality than commercial projects.

[BJungNan]

Oh really. A rocket lauch fails and that means the entire program is suspect. What a bogus article.

[Ahban]

MAybe they should have just stolen our technology, like the CHi-coms, instead of trying to invent their own.

[Orangedog]

They'll get it together in short order. There was a time when we couldn't get a rocket off the ground, even with Von Braun and his boys doing the design work. Just take a look at film footage of some of our early adventures in rocketry. IIRC, the saying at the time was something like "When the countdown clock hits zero, something's gonna happen."

[boris]

"Failure to launch Rocket casts shadow on Japan's space, defence plans"

Is "Rocket" the rocket's name?

--Boris