A modified version of Japan’s SS-520 sounding rocket This was the first flight of the SS-520-4, a modified version of Japan’s SS-520 sounding rocket that’s used to deliver research payloads to ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has set a record for the smallest-ever rocket to launch a satellite into orbit, using a SS-520 sounding rocket modified to include a third stage carrying a 13 ...

Though Elon Musk might disagree, bigger isn’t always better, at least not when it comes to breaking records. Over the weekend, Japan launched a miniature satellite by way of a modified SS-520 ...

The first flight of a tiny experimental Japanese rocket, touted as the world's smallest booster designed to launch a satellite in orbit, failed Sunday (Jan. 15), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

Market demand for rockets that can deliver smaller payloads into space relatively cheaply and on a flexible schedule is growing, and it was this demand that Japan's SS-520 series of rockets was ...

This weekend Japan tried to launch a 3kg cubesat into orbit aboard its multi-stage, SS-520 rocket. Were it to have succeeded, the SS-520 would have become the smallest rocket to ever deliver a payload ...

A Japanese rocket designed to be the lightest and smallest rocket to ever send a payload into orbit failed during launch on Sunday, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The ...

Japan has set a new spaceflight record -- and unlike most of these feats, it's defined by what wasn't involved. The country's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the smallest ...