MHI Assembles H3 Second Stage, Ready For Captive Testing

Credit: H3: JAXA
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has assembled the second stage of the first H3 medium-lift space launcher, preparing for captive firing tests in a few months and first flight in a little more than a year. A second round of testing of LE-9 first-stage main engines is an integrated but not flyable...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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