A Japanese H3 rocket carrying the sixth satellite of a seven-satellite geolocation system failed to place its payload into orbit following liftoff. | Al Arabiya English

JAXA(宇宙航空研究開発機構) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have successfully reached orbit on the second test flight of their H3 rocket, after it launched from Launch Pad 2 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex of the Tanegashima Space Center. On board todays flight was what they called Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4 (VEP-4), a mass simulator of a larger satelite, as well as a pair of small satellites — CE-SAT-1E and TIRSAT — as secondary payloads. With the successful test flight, we hope that we will see many mo