{"id":182991,"date":"2024-02-18T03:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/japans-flagship-h3-rocket-successfully-reaches-orbit-after-failed-debut-launch"},"modified":"2024-02-18T03:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:24:26","slug":"japans-flagship-h3-rocket-successfully-reaches-orbit-after-failed-debut-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/japans-flagship-h3-rocket-successfully-reaches-orbit-after-failed-debut-launch","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s flagship H3 rocket successfully reaches orbit after failed debut launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-flagship-h3-rocket-successfully-reaches-orbit-after-failed-debut-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The H3\u2019s main missions are to secure independent access to space and be competitive as international demand for satellite launches grows. \u201cWe made a big first step today toward achieving that goal,\u201d Yamakawa said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is a boost for Japan\u2019s space program following a recent streak of successes, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/japanese-moon-lander-reaches-surface-but-fate-uncertain\/\" target=\"_blank\">historic precision touchdown<\/a> on the moon of an unmanned spacecraft last month.<\/p>\n<p>The liftoff was closely watched as a test for Japan\u2019s space development after H3, in its debut flight last March, failed to ignite the second-stage engine. JAXA and its main contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have been developing H3 as a successor to its current mainstay, H-2A, which is set to retire after two more flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H3\u2019s main missions are to secure independent access to space and be competitive as international demand for satellite launches grows. \u201cWe made a big first step today toward achieving that goal,\u201d Yamakawa said. The launch is a boost for Japan\u2019s space program following a recent streak of successes, including a historic precision touchdown on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}