Japan Reattempts Launch of Radar Satellite After Failure Last Year

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Japan’s space agency JAXA launches its third H3 flagship rocket carrying $200 million radar satellite ALOS-4 at 12 p.m. JST on July 1 (11 p.m. ET on June 30) at Tanegashima in Japan, a reattempt after the first H3 flight last year resulted in manual destruction and loss of another state-funded satellite.

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