{"id":659362,"date":"2025-12-28T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:52:14","slug":"how-japans-space-industry-can-regain-thrust-after-h3-rocket-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659362\/","title":{"rendered":"How Japan\u2019s space industry can regain thrust after H3 rocket failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s latest rocket failure has triggered much soul-searching and resurrected a debate about whether the country\u2019s space programme, long defined by caution and incremental progress, is equipped for a market that now rewards speed, repetition and a tolerance for failure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Monday, the domestically built H3 rocket, Japan\u2019s new flagship launcher, failed, costing the country a satellite and drawing sharp criticism from the Japanese media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Local media called the incident a \u201csignificant setback\u201d to Japan\u2019s space ambitions and warned that the programme \u201cfaces a long road\u201d before it could regain the trust of foreign partners and customers seeking guarantees that their satellites would be deployed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While aerospace experts agree that the loss of the rocket and its payload will dent the reputation of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), they also caution against a rush to judgment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, this is a huge black eye for Jaxa and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/mitsubishi-heavy-industries?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitsubishi Heavy Industries<\/a>, which makes the engines for the H3, but this is just the nature of the space business,\u201d said Lance Gatling, president of Nexial Research.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The H3 rocket rises into the air after blasting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Monday. Photo: Kyodo\/Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6081afc3-fd29-4d7d-a610-a058f7c9d809_4613fb11.jpg\" title=\"The H3 rocket rises into the air after blasting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Monday. Photo: Kyodo\/Reuters\"\/>The H3 rocket rises into the air after blasting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Monday. Photo: Kyodo\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPart of the problem in Japan is that they have not failed enough. Development here is very long because they want perfection. Whenever something goes wrong in the process, it takes a long time to figure out what needs to change and the design engineers, laboratory technicians and everyone else are standing around waiting for someone else,\u201d the aerospace and defence analyst said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s latest rocket failure has triggered much soul-searching and resurrected a debate about whether the country\u2019s space programme,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[201553,1395,295,78351,201559,196535,2122,201555,201558,171381,201554,21334,70,413,1603,201557,16,15,201556],"class_list":{"0":"post-659362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-asahi-newspaper","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-h-iia","12":"tag-h-iib","13":"tag-h3","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-japan-aerospace-exploration-agency-jaxa","16":"tag-kazuto-suzuki","17":"tag-mitsubishi-heavy-industries","18":"tag-nexial-research","19":"tag-satellite","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-spacex","23":"tag-tokyo-university","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-yomiuri"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115796112553356280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}