WASHINGTON — Japanese radar-imaging company Synspective has been selected as a partner in a Japan Ministry of Defense project ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki 5 satellite took off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island Monday as part of Japan's ...

Japan’s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered issues with its second ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a ...

The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite "Michibiki No. 6," lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2, 2025. (Kyodo ...

The H3 rocket launched on Sunday at 8:51 p.m. ET from the Tanegashima Space Center, located on a southwestern Japanese island. The rocket’s second-stage engine burn failed to ignite on time, resulting ...

This image made from video shows Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H2A rocket in Tobishima, Japan, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo) This image made from video shows Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H2A rocket in ...

Japan's workhorse H-2A rocket flew for the second-to-last time early Thursday morning (Sept. 26). An H-2A topped with a secret spy satellite called IGS-Radar 8 lifted off from Japan's Tanegashima ...

North Korea informed neighboring Japan on Monday that it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, despite the United Nations prohibiting it from engaging in such activity. Japan's coast guard ...

A Japanese satellite recorded unprecedented observations of the Perseus galaxy before it disappeared from contact, scientists said, offering precious new information about how gas travels in the ...

Japan's space agency will launch a satellite in February to enable the country to stably operate its own geolocation system akin to the U.S. Global Positioning System. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said on Sunday it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system ...