TOKYO (AP) — The engine for a new flagship small Japanese rocket burst into flames Tuesday during a combustion test, causing no injury or damage to the outside but destroying the engine and ...

The company suspended the small rocket's flight some 10 minutes after launch from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, and purposefully detonated the craft. No private Japanese ...

TOBISHIMA, Aichi Prefecture--Japan’s space agency and ... of our role as an alternative.” An H3 rocket successfully reached orbit and released two small observation satellites on Feb. 17 ...