There was smoke at the launch site after the H3's main engine was cut off.
Credit: JAXA
SINGAPORE—Japan was forced to abort the launch of its new H3 rocket after the launch vehicle’s SRB-3 boosters failed to ignite. The rocket was due to blast off from Tanegashima Space Center on the morning of Feb. 17 local time to place the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3 Daichi-3 (ALOS-3) into...
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