Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into orbit.

The H3 is a relatively new vehicle, with last month’s launch marking the eighth flight of Japan’s flagship rocket. The launcher falls on the medium-to-heavy section of the lift spectrum. The eighth H3 ...

Six months after its first orbital rocket cleared the launch tower for just 14 seconds before crashing back to Earth, Gilmour ...

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese commercial space company Galactic Energy said a launch mission for one of its Ceres-1 rockets failed on Monday, preventing it from delivering its payload of satellites to ...

Chinese space companies experienced two rocket launch failures in a single day. The incidents occurred as the country accelerates its “space rise” ambitions, with some quarters even referring to the ...

Dec. 22 (UPI) --Japan's H3 rocket faced issues Monday during its seventh launch attempt. The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:51 p.m. EST Sunday night in Japan carrying the ...