What JAXA just did with H3 rocket is BETTER and HUMILIATED Blue Origin after after SpaceX

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What JAXA just did with H3 rocket is BETTER and HUMILIATED Blue Origin after after SpaceX
H3 rocket | Japan’s brand new rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 and even humiliated Blue Origin

In the space race, not only the big names: U.S, China and Russia, but Japan is a powerful competitor.
Japan has a long history of launching orbital rockets, dating back about half a century. During much of this time, its launch industry has focused largely on orbiting national payloads, such as communications, global positioning, and Earth-observation satellites for sovereign purposes.
However, with the H2-A rocket introduced in 2001, the country’s launch industry sought to tap into the commercial launch market and send satellites into space for other countries and private companies. With this medium-lift rocket, which is about on par in lift capacity with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster, Japan had some commercial successes, including the notable launch of the Emirates Mars Mission in 2020.
But the H2-A rocket, which is manufactured by the Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has never really broken through. One reason is cost. At a launch price of approximately $90 million, the H2A rocket is about 50 percent more expensive than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. As a result, Japan’s H2A booster only launches a handful of times per year, primarily serving the Japanese government.
This problem was already clear nearly a decade ago, so the Japanese space agency, JAXA, greenlit the development of the next-generation H3 rocket. As it developed the new vehicle, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries focused on cost. The goal was to sell the H3 at $51 million per launch in its base configuration. With a lower price, Japan envisioned doubling its launch cadence from about four to eight missions a year.
What JAXA just did with H3 rocket is BETTER and HUMILIATED Blue Origin after after SpaceX

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35 thoughts on “What JAXA just did with H3 rocket is BETTER and HUMILIATED Blue Origin after after SpaceX”

  3. What'd can see. Very interesting report. Japanese craft as always, at the level, one label is Mitsubishi say many about quality. And another japan labels named with. Its not copy Orion, starship of USA type. Something another. Who will liders in engine's evolutionary step by step..may be japan😚💥🛸

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  5. I like your videos, but your speech synthesis software is not perfected yet.

    It's pronounced 51 million dollars, not 51 dollars million.

    And 'Tech', the 'ch' sounds like 'k'. Tek, not tetch

    A little software tweak is definitely needed 😬

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  11. Nope non reusable rockets are not really viable anymore except for some hefty gouvernment funding. If Blue origin can complete new glen and prove it can be reused they become the only competitor to Space X. I am happy Japan could innovate but this is not enough by far. Space X is the leader in the market because the took risk and other firms are not willing to take them so they deserve to die out.

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  14. Fifty one dollars million? Alpha tetch? This is why I stopped clicking the like button for these videos months ago. Sometimes, good reports, although mostly repetitive to Great SpaceX, but now 2 per day, even when there's no new news to report? Only reason why I don't unsubscribe is because occasionally, yet very rarely, there's something new worth listening to.

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  18. Japan will figure it out, NO doubt at all… Id love to see them be able to help the ISS and our international partners and beyond as the video states.

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