Enlarge / The H3 rocket launches from Tanegashima, Japan, on Tuesday. (credit score: JAXA)

The launch of Japan’s H3 rocket on Tuesday morning, native time in Tanegashima, failed after the automobile’s second stage engine didn’t ignite.

In a terse assertion on the failure, Japanese area company JAXA stated, “A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 round 10:52 a.m. (Japan Commonplace Time), as a result of there was no chance of attaining the mission. We’re confirming the scenario.”

The Japanese area company, in live performance with the rocket’s producer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has spent about $1.5 billion growing the H3 rocket over the past decade. A lot of the problem in constructing the brand new rocket concerned growth of a brand new LE-9 engine, which is fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, to energy the primary stage. This appeared to carry out flawlessly. The second-stage engine that failed, the LE-5B, was a extra established engine.