{"id":61967,"date":"2024-02-17T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/17\/japan-launches-second-flagship-h3-rocket-a-year-after-inaugural-flight-self-destructed"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T03:40:29","slug":"japan-launches-second-flagship-h3-rocket-a-year-after-inaugural-flight-self-destructed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61967","title":{"rendered":"Japan launches second flagship H3 rocket a year after inaugural flight self-destructed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space agency announces \u2018successful liftoff\u2019 and says rocket has already released one micro-satellite<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s space agency has successfully launched a second test model of its new flagship rocket H3, in a welcome boost to its space program after last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/japan-h3-rocket-fails-after-liftoff-self-destruct\">inaugural flight failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The launch further burnishes the country\u2019s space credentials after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/jan\/26\/japan-slim-moon-sniper-probe-landing-upside-down\">historic \u201cpinpoint\u201d moon landing<\/a> of Japan\u2019s Slim spacecraft last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/17\/japan-launches-second-flagship-h3-rocket-a-year-after-inaugural-flight-self-destructed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space agency announces \u2018successful liftoff\u2019 and says rocket has already released one micro-satelliteJapan\u2019s space agency has successfully launched a second test model of its new flagship rocket H3, in a welcome boost to its space program after last yea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,299,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-science","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967\/revisions\/61968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}