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WORLD_ Japanese Space Agency's H3 Rocket Launches Successfully in Major Comeback (Ward Clark - REDSTATE)

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Japanese Space Agency's H3 Rocket Launches Successfully in Major Comeback

By Ward Clark | 4:09 PM on June 13, 2026

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Nozomi Endo/Kyodo News via AP


As Elon Musk has pointed out, rockets are hard. He's in a position to know, being the head of the most successful private-sector spacefaring venture to date. But several nations are also reaching into space, including Japan. Last December, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had a nasty failure of their H3 rocket when the second stage of that bird didn't go off as intended. They're back at it now, though, with a successful launch of the H3 on Friday.


Japan successfully launched its flagship H3 rocket Friday morning, marking the resumption of the rocket’s flights roughly six months after a failed mission in December and the first flight of a new low-cost configuration intended to strengthen the country’s competitiveness in the global launch market.

H3 Launch Vehicle No. 6 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 9:53 a.m., according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It reached its target orbit approximately 16 minutes later.


That's a good launch, one that ought to please even Elon Musk. Being that this was a test flight, the H3 put up on Friday didn't carry a satellite payload, but rather a dummy payload intended to gather launch data:

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