Enlarge / Japan’s subsequent era “H3” rocket, carrying the superior optical satellite tv for pc “Daichi 3”, leaves the launch pad on the Tanegashima Area Middle in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan on March 7, 2023. (credit score: STR/JIJI Press/AFP through Getty Photographs)

Welcome to Version 5.29 of the Rocket Report! It was an enormous week for brand spanking new rockets, with the failure of Japan’s new H3 booster after which the near-launch of Relativity Area’s Terran 1. Talking of the H3, I suppose I did not fairly notice that Japan put a satellite tv for pc valued at greater than 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} on the debut flight of the rocket. That was, umm, daring.

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