Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a ...

Japan’s ambitions for an independent satellite navigation system suffered a significant blow this week after the second major failure of its flagship H3 rocket. The rocket, which was carrying the ...

Preparations for launch of the sixth Kinetica-1 rocket in December 2024 at Jiuquan spaceport. HELSINKI — A Chinese commercial Kinetica-1 solid rocket failed late Thursday, with the launch attempt ...

Welcome to Edition 7.02 of the Rocket Report! The highlight of this week was the hugely successful debut of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket. They will address the upper stage issue, I am sure. Given Europe’s ...

Japan’s H3 rocket failed to reach orbit on Monday, so instead of celebrating the debut of a flagship launch vehicle, Japan’s space agency is scrambling to understand what went wrong and what it means ...

Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl releasing the LauncherOne booster rocket during its test flight in 2019. Photo: Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson Richard Branson’s private space venture Virgin Orbit is reportedly ...

HELSINKI — Chinese commercial rocket outfit iSpace suffered a launch failure late Wednesday in a fresh setback for the company. The four-stage Hyperbola-1 solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan ...

(CNN) — Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — which is designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — will return to flight on Monday after the Jeff Bezos-founded company spent more ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in ...