Last year’s explosion was related to damage to the ignition ... The triple-stage, 27-meter (88-foot) -long Epsilon S rocket is meant to improve Japan’s position in the growing satellite ...
the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan. Footage from public broadcaster NHK showed a blaze breaking out shortly after the ground combustion test started, with an explosion heard as well.
A potentially catastrophic explosion of a World War II-era bomb ... an urgent search for unexploded ordnance at airports across Japan. The search will center around the runways, taxiways and ...