The company suspended the small rocket's flight some 10 minutes after launch from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, and purposefully detonated the craft. No private Japanese ...

In the second launch attempt, the rocket was supposed to carry five satellites, including one from the Taiwan Space Agency and others designed by Japanese students and corporate ventures.

We must say this is a grave situation for Japan's space development program. JAXA and the science and technology ministry are trying to determine why the launch failed. In the future, the H-3 is ...