Maiden flight of Japan's H3 rocket, carrying the ALOS-3 (Daichi-3) optical Earth-observation satellite. The second-stage engine failed to ignite and JAXA issued a destruct command, destroying the rocket and its payload.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 H3-22 flights
- Date and time
- 7 March 2023, 01:37 UTC
- Rocket
- H3-22
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2023
- 32nd of 223