Video of the March 4 Kairos launch shows several fragments appearing a little more than a minute after liftoff. Credit: Spaceport Kii Surrounding Regional Council WASHINGTON — The third launch of a ...

Japan's Space One said its Kairos small rocket self-destructed 69 seconds after lift-off on Thursday, failing to achieve the country's first entirely commercial satellite launch for the third attempt ...

A Japanese startup aborted the flight of its rocket Thursday just over a minute after launch from a space complex in wester ...

South Korean startup Innospace says its inaugural launch failed in December when exhaust leaked from a combustion chamber and caused the rocket to break up.

A Japanese startup's third attempt to put a satellite in orbit failed on Thursday after its rocket spiraled back to Earth shortly after takeoff.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Japan's Space One's small, solid-fueled Kairos rocket rises into the air from Space One's launching pad on the tip of ...

A startup's third attempt to put a satellite in orbit failed after its rocket spiralled back to Earth shortly after take-off.

Japanese startup Space One aborted the launch of its Kairos rocket shortly after liftoff, ending its attempt to become the country’s first private company to put a satellite into orbit. View on eurone ...