TOKYO -- Japan on Sunday launched the Michibiki navigation satellite aboard the H3 Rocket No 5 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. The H3 Rocket No 5, carrying the Michibiki ...

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's next-generation H3 rocket developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is set to fully replace the operation of the H2A rocket, which is expected ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

or JAXA. Officials said it is expected to reach its targeted geospatial orbit in about two weeks. Japan currently has the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS, with four satellites for a ...