Police received an emergency call shortly after 9 a.m. from a nearby resident reporting that she heard “a loud noise and saw smoke” rising from the Noshiro Rocket Testing Center. JAXA said ...

The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said. About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials ...

Mitsubishi Heavy will eventually take over H3 production and launches from JAXA and hopes to make it commercially viable. The H3 rocket’s first and second stages were shown to the media before ...