{"id":800002,"date":"2026-01-06T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800002"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:34:30","slug":"launch-postponement-of-michibiki-no-7-quasi-zenith-satellite-system-qzs-7-aboard-the-9th-h3-launch-vehicle-h3-f9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800002","title":{"rendered":"Launch Postponement of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard the 9th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F9)"},"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 Postponement of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) <br \/>aboard the 9th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F9)<\/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<br \/>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- \/elem_paragraph --><\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>The launch of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard the 9th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F9) which was scheduled on February 1, 2026(JST), has been postponed due to the necessity of conducting an investigation into the launch failure of the 8th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F8) and evaluating its impact on subsequent launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>We have been committing all our resources and efforts to investigating the cause of H3F8 launch failure. The new launch schedule will be announced once confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- \/area_content_main --><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2026\/01\/20260107-1_e.html?rand=771667\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch Postponement of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard the 9th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F9) Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. The launch of MICHIBIKI No.&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-800002","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\/800002","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=800002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800002\/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=800002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}