Japan's H3 rocket succeeds on return to flight, deploying 6 satellites after previous failure
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Josh Dinner
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JAXA successfully launched its H3 rocket on June 11 from Tanegashima Space Center, marking its first flight since a failure in December 2023 that resulted in payload loss. This was the H3's eighth liftoff and the first flight of its three-engine configuration, successfully delivering all six payloads to their respective orbits. The rocket made a successful return to flight after the previous failure with the Michibiki 5 satellite.
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· 3 pulledLiftoff occurred on Thursday (June 11), just before 8:54 p.m. EDT (0054 GMT), from the Tanegashima Space Center on the southeastern tip of Japan.
It was H3's eighth-ever liftoff, and the first flight of the rocket's three-engine configuration, which delivered all six of its payloads to their respective orbits, according to a JAXA release.
H3 failed to deliver its payload, the Michibiki 5 satellite, during its previous flight in December 2023.
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