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February 21, 2019

Breaking News

[ February 21, 2019 ] Live coverage: First launch of the year from Cape Canaveral set for Thursday Falcon 9
[ February 20, 2019 ] Soyuz ready for launch with Egyptian imaging satellite Mission Reports
[ February 20, 2019 ] New Horizons finds Ultima Thule has an unexpected, flattened shape Mission Reports
[ February 19, 2019 ] Falcon 9 launch set for Thursday at Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ February 18, 2019 ] NASA orbiter spots Chinese lander on the moon Mission Reports

Souped-up sounding rocket lifts off from Japan with tiny satellite

February 2, 2018

A modified sounding rocket originally designed to loft science instruments on high-altitude suborbital arcs blasted off Saturday from the Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan and soared into orbit to become the world’s smallest satellite launcher.

Experimental flight of Japanese sounding rocket falls short of orbit

January 16, 2017

A small research rocket launched from Japan fell into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after attempting to send a student-built CubeSat into orbit, Japanese officials said.

Launch of experimental Japanese rocket scrubbed

January 10, 2017

The launch of an experimental fin-stabilized Japanese rocket with a shoebox-sized CubeSat was scrubbed Tuesday, pushing back a test flight to demonstrate how companies and institutions can inexpensively put small satellites in space.