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 on Sunday launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise ...

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 ...