The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA announced this Thursday that it will make a third attempt to launch the new H3 rocket on February 15 after two failures this year.
A successor to JAXA’s H2-A rockets should allow Japan to conduct more frequent commercial space launches, about six times a year, safer and less expensive, to compete with foreign devices such as the Falcon 9 from North American company SpaceX.
But since 2014, development of the H3, a rocket that stands 63 meters tall and weighs 574 tons excluding payload, has taken longer and cost more than expected, with the first flight failing twice this year, damaging the Japanese agency’s reputation for reliability.
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