President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised Russia's large number of space failures after the first rocket launch from the country's new Vostochny cosmodrome was delayed minutes before blast-off.

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, has successfully launched its H3 rocket on its first flight since a failure of the vehicle last December, which resulted in the loss of its payload.