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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Japan was forced to blow up its new rocket during a failed launch on Tuesday, setting back efforts to crack a market led by Elon Musk’s Space X.<\/p>\n

Its space agency had to send a self-destruct command to the H3 rocket when its second-stage engine failed minutes after lift-off.<\/p>\n

Observers say it is a significant setback for Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa).<\/p>\n

The government called the test failure “extremely regrettable”.<\/p>\n

The H3 rocket is the first medium-lift rocket designed by Japan in three decades.<\/p>\n

It has been presented as a cheaper alternative to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 for launching commercial and government satellites into Earth’s orbit.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, engineers had aimed to send the 57m (187ft) rocket into space with a monitoring satellite on board. The ALOS-3 system is capable of detecting North Korean missile launches.<\/p>\n

But Jaxa said soon after launch, engineers were forced to send a self-destruct prompt to the H3 after it experienced “reduced velocity” in the second stage of its launch.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s launch came after an aborted launch in February, when the rocket failed to get off the launch pad due to faulty rocket boosters.<\/p>\n

“Unlike the previous cancellation and postponement, this time it was a complete failure,” Hirotaka Watanabe, a space policy professor at Osaka University told Reuters.<\/p>\n

“This will have a serious impact on Japan’s future space policy, space business and technological competitiveness,” he added.<\/p>\n

Japan’s science minister Keiko Nagaoka said authorities would investigate the cause of the engine failure.<\/p>\n

She apologised for “failing to meet the expectations of the public and related parties” and described the development as “extremely regrettable”.<\/p>\n

Japan had presented the H3 as a viable commercial alternative to the Falcon 9 rocket because the H3 ran on a lower-cost engine with 3D-printed parts.<\/p>\n

Had the mission succeeded, JAXA said it had planned to launch the H3 around six times a year for the next two decades.<\/p>\n

Japan is deepening cooperation with the US in space and has committed to carrying cargo to the planned Gateway lunar space station – which NASA plans to deploy to the moon’s orbit.<\/p>\n

Tokyo’s broader space programme also involves sending people to the moon again, including Japanese astronauts.<\/p>\n

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