{"id":22037,"date":"2023-03-08T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jaxas-h3-rocket-suffers-second-stage-failure-on-inaugural-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:02:58","slug":"jaxas-h3-rocket-suffers-second-stage-failure-on-inaugural-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jaxas-h3-rocket-suffers-second-stage-failure-on-inaugural-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"JAXA\u2019s H3 rocket suffers second stage failure on inaugural launch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A decade of work with step-by-step progress<\/h2>\n

JAXA and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have worked on the H3 rocket for about a decade. Its mission is to eventually replace the agency\u2019s HIIA rocket currently launching. H3 is supposed to be able to compete against SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 on cost. However, it has years before it can compete on launch reliability.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s launch attempt was delayed from Sunday due to the weather, and Sunday\u2019s attempt was postponed from February due to a failure to igniting the SRBs at T-0. Yesterday there was no issue getting the rocket off the ground. The SRBs ignited and detached a couple of minutes after launch, and the core stage\u2019s engines performed as expected. Around the time of first stage cutoff, however, the rocket appeared to tumble out of control.<\/p>\n

Exactly what went wrong has not been confirmed by JAXA, and the only piece of information that the agency put out there was that a destruction command was sent to the rocket.<\/p>\n

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