Japan’s H-IIB Lifts Off Following Launchpad Fire

Credit: Darrell Etherington
It was not the coming-out party Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) had planned to highlight its growing interest in the commercial launch industry, but the prime contractor for Japan’s H-II rocket family nonetheless found itself in the limelight after an unprecedented launchpad fire nixed its eighth...

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