The H3 is scheduled to lift off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center tonight during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 7:22 p.m. EST (0022 GMT and 9:22 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Feb. 17).

Live footage from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency showed a huge fireball and smoke billowing from the Tanegashima Space Center. The cause of the failure is unclear. No injuries were reported.

Japan launched its fourth H-3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov. 4 and released the government’s X-band defense communications satellite Kirameki-3 into orbit.

Carrying the UAE’s KhalifaSat, the H-IIA Launch Vehicle blasts off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. Photograph courtesy Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd./JAXA 4 min read In October last ...

An H-2A rocket carrying a Japanese navigation satellite, the Michibiki No. 4, lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on Oct. 10. NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei waves ...

FILE - The logo of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is seen at its Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitanecho, Kagoshima prefecture, Feb. 16, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP, File) ...

It’s due to take off at 1:20 a.m. UTC from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The first launch last week took place on Wednesday, a Falcon 9 launched by SpaceX carrying the US Space Force ...

The rocket, 63 meters tall and 5.2 meters in diameter, blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center earlier on Tuesday following an aborted launch on February 17. The rocket was expected to ...

TASS/. The H2A rocket carrying Japan’s first lunar probe Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) was lunched on Thursday from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan. The launch ...

Corner reflectors of this type with 1.5 and 3 m side length will be used for PALSAR product verification ALOS, an enhanced successor of the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1), was launched ...