{"id":6812,"date":"2026-01-23T03:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:38:19","slug":"from-japan-to-china-to-india-rockets-are-failing-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2026\/01\/23\/from-japan-to-china-to-india-rockets-are-failing-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Japan to China to India, Rockets Are Failing in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-01-21\/rockets-are-failing-in-asia-from-japan-to-china-to-india?embedded-checkout=true\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-01-21\/rockets-are-failing-in-asia-from-japan-to-china-to-india?embedded-checkout=true<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what space analysts are calling a disappointing run of launch setbacks, key Asian nations that aim to challenge Western dominance in orbital access  have experienced a string of rocket failures in late 2025 and early 2026. These setbacks come at a moment when national space ambitions are tightly woven with global geopolitical competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan\u2019s relatively new H3 rocket, intended to replace older launchers and cement Tokyo\u2019s status as a reliable space power, failed to deliver a navigation satellite into orbit in December 2025 due to an upper\u2011stage anomaly that cut its burn short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), widely regarded as the reliable \u201cworkhorse\u201d of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), failed again in January 2026 with its PSLV\u2011C62 mission. The third\u2011stage anomaly caused the rocket to miss orbit, leading to the loss of an Earth observation satellite and multiple smaller payloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Even China\u2019s commercial space sector has faced hurdles. LandSpace\u2019s Zhuque\u20113, China\u2019s ambitious reusable rocket designed to rival SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9, managed to insert a payload into orbit in December 2025 but failed in its landing\/recovery attempt due to a combustion anomaly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-01-21\/rockets-are-failing-in-asia-from-japan-to-china-to-india?embedded-checkout=true In what space analysts are calling a disappointing run of launch setbacks, key Asian nations that aim to challenge Western dominance in orbital access have experienced a string of rocket failures in late 2025 and early 2026. These setbacks come at a moment when national space ambitions are tightly woven with global geopolitical competition. Japan\u2019s relatively new H3 rocket,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2026\/01\/23\/from-japan-to-china-to-india-rockets-are-failing-in-asia\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}