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  • Japan's new flagship H3 rocket launch fails, ordered to self-destruct

    03/07/2023 4:59:07 AM PST · by csvset · 13 replies
    Kyoto News ^ | 7 March 2023 | Staff
    Japan's new flagship H3 rocket lifted off Tuesday for the first time but was ordered to self-destruct minutes later after its second-stage engine failed to ignite, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said, with the failure marking another blow to the country's aspirations in the space industry. The failure followed a string of delays to the development of the successor to the reliable H2A rocket, including a previous launch attempt on Feb. 17 that was aborted moments before blastoff at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima due to malfunctioning electrical equipment. The second launch...
  • JAPAN TO LAUNCH FIRST-EVER 'SPY' SATELLITE, TARGETING N. KOREA, AT 8:27 P.M. EASTERN TONIGHT

    03/27/2003 1:52:37 PM PST · by AmericanInTokyo · 46 replies · 296+ views
    This will be pretty big news in Northeast Asia (in the next few hours).This will be the first attempt by Japan to put spy satellites in orbit. They are moving ahead quickly on this because of the threat from misbehaving North Korea.The time will be: 8:27 p.m. Thursday Eastern Time. The launch site for the H-2 rocket is Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. There is heavy security there. (Open source information). No Japanese websites, (that I have noticed), are planning to webcast, although they have webcast other satellite launches in the past.News stories should break on the Web soon after,...