JAXA is examining the failure to determine what went wrong. The last rocket launch failure was the H2A No. 6 rocket in 2003, the agency said. The eight satellites that were destroyed included ...

Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system ...

This photo shows the launch of an H2A rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 29, 2020. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Chinese hacker group ...

Everything so far has been as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said ... flagship rockets as successors to the mainstay H2A series — the larger H3 and a much smaller ...