Japan time, the American company SpaceX conducted its 14th flight test of the reusable rocket currently under development, the "Starship," successfully achieving its first Earth orbit and payload ...

Japanese lunar transportation company ispace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed a launch services contract on July 29, 2026, booking ispace's ULTRA lunar lander onto Japan's H3 rocket for a 2028 ...

Japan SAR satellite startup iQPS signed a rideshare agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on September 14, 2026 to fly three QPS-SAR radar-imaging satellites on Japan's H3 rocket, backed by a ...

Thirty days ago, an Electron rocket sat on the pad at Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, with its first-stage engines lit — and then didn't fly. The abort was Rocket Lab's first failed launch attempt for ...

With the consecutive launch successes this year and the MMX launch in October, the H3 rocket has been appearing more ...

Japan's H-IIA rocket carrying the Kirameki-2 satellite is launched from Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture, on January 24, 2017. Japan on January 24 launched ...

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

Rocket Lab completed its ninth launch for Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) on Aug. 21 from New Zealand. iQPS based in Kyushu, Japan, ...

Welcome to Edition 9.03 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX counted down all the way to T-0 on Thursday evening in South Texas before a handful of Raptor engines decided not to light at ignition of the ...

Japan's H3 rocket No. 9 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at around 4:23 a.m. on August 11, successfully placing Michibiki 7, part of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite ...