Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into orbit.

The H3 is a relatively new vehicle, with last month’s launch marking the eighth flight of Japan’s flagship rocket. The launcher falls on the medium-to-heavy section of the lift spectrum. The eighth H3 ...

Six months after its first orbital rocket cleared the launch tower for just 14 seconds before crashing back to Earth, Gilmour ...

A private Chinese rocket just suffered its second-ever failure. Galactic Energy's solid-fuel Ceres-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:02 p.m. EST on ...

China’s private space industry is evolving at a dramatic pace, as it continues to strive to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In a new development, Chinese rocket firm LandSpace conducted a key static fire ...

Japan failed in the launch of an H3 rocket last month due to damage to a section mounting a satellite and to fuel tubing, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Tuesday. After liftoff, ...

For centuries, rocket engines evolved alongside war, science, and human ambition. From primitive gunpowder weapons to the ...