TOKYO — Japan's new medium-lift rocket failed on its debut flight in space on Tuesday (March 7) after the launcher's second-stage engine did not ignite as planned, in a blow to its efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete against Elon Musk's SpaceX. The 57-metre tall H3 rocket lifted off without a hitch from the Tanegashima space...
An H3 rocket carrying a land observation satellite lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Centre on the southwestern island of Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan March 7, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
"It was decided the rocket could not complete its mission, so the destruct command was sent," a launch broadcast commentator from JAXA said. "So what happened? It's something we will have to investigate looking at all the data.""Unlike the previous cancellation and postponement, this time it was a complete failure," said Hirotaka Watanabe, a professor at Osaka University with expertise in space policy.
H3 builder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd said it was confirming the situation surrounding the rocket with JAXA and did not have an immediate comment. In a report published in September, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies put the cost of a Falcon 9 launch to low Earth orbit at US$2,600 per kilogramme. The equivalent price tag for the H-II is US$10,500.
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