{"id":799854,"date":"2025-12-22T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799854"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:11:29","slug":"launch-failure-of-the-8th-h3-launch-vehicle-and-setting-up-a-special-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799854","title":{"rendered":"Launch Failure of the 8th H3 Launch Vehicle and Setting up a Special Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"elem_heading_lv2\">\n<div class=\"elem_center elem_heading_lv2_pad\">\n<p><h2>Launch Failure of the 8th H3 Launch Vehicle and Setting up a Special Task Force<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- \/elem_heading_lv2 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p class=\"right\">Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- \/elem_paragraph --><\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\u2003Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the MICHIBIKI No. 5, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5) aboard the 8th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F8) at 10:51:30 on December 22, 2025 (JST, the time is the 24-hour clock) from Tanegashima Space Center. However, the second stage engine\u2019s second ignition failed to start normally and shut down prematurely. As a result, QZS-5 could not be put into the planned orbit, and the launch failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\u2003We would like to express our deepest apology to many people and entities, particularly those related to the QZS-5, local organizations and the public, who had high expectations for this project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\u2003We have set up a special task force headed by President YAMAKAWA, and started investigations to find out the cause.<br \/>\u2003We will keep updated the information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- \/area_content_main --><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2025\/12\/20251222-2_e.html?rand=771667\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch Failure of the 8th H3 Launch Vehicle and Setting up a Special Task Force Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency \u2003Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the MICHIBIKI No. 5, Quasi-Zenith&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}