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July 23, 2025

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[ July 22, 2025 ] FAA: ‘Regional power outage’ causes last-minute scrub of NASA’s TRACERS mission Falcon 9
[ July 21, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 15th mission for SES following one-day scrub Falcon 9
[ July 18, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on Falcon 9 rocket from California Falcon 9
[ July 15, 2025 ] SpaceX launches first of three missions for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation Falcon 9
[ July 15, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9

Japanese space science missions facing delays after H3 rocket failure

April 11, 2023 Stephen Clark

The launch of a Japanese X-ray telescope and robotic lunar lander has been delayed to no earlier than August, and the launch schedule for another Japanese mission to return samples from a moon of Mars is in doubt as engineers investigate the failure of Japan’s first H3 rocket last month.

NASA confirms contribution to Japanese-led Mars mission

November 20, 2017 Stephen Clark

NASA announced Thursday it will fund development of a scientific instrument that will fly on Japan’s Martian Moons Exploration mission, a robotic probe set for launch in 2024 to bring back the first samples from Mars’ largest moon Phobos.