{"id":731189,"date":"2026-06-12T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:23:09","slug":"japan-successfully-launches-h3-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731189\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan successfully launches H3 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan successfully launched its flagship H3 rocket Friday morning, marking the resumption of the rocket\u2019s flights roughly six months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/japan\/science-health\/h3-rocket-launch-fails\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a failed mission in December<\/a> and the first flight of a new low-cost configuration intended to strengthen the country\u2019s competitiveness in the global launch market.<\/p>\n<p>The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 6 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 9:53 a.m., according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It reached its target orbit approximately 16\u00a0minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s mission was the first flight of the H3\u2019s \u201c30 configuration,\u201d a booster-free variant equipped with three first-stage liquid-fueled LE-9 engines and no solid rocket boosters. The configuration is expected to be the lowest-cost model in the H3 series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan successfully launched its flagship H3 rocket Friday morning, marking the resumption of the rocket\u2019s flights roughly six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,144002,68259,21938,20410,128,285],"class_list":["post-731189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-h3","tag-jaxa","tag-rockets","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}