The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SS-520 rocket lifts off from the launching pad at Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on 3 February, 2018. Photograph courtesy of Kyodo/via REUTERS. Following on the heels of the successful Rocket Labs Electron rocket launch from New Zealnd on 20 January,...