KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad
The first flight of the KAIROS – a rocket developed by private entity SPACE ONE – barely got off the pad before it was detonated by mission control.
Kairos has a single solid propellant motor, a liquid-fuelled upper stage, and the ability to hoist payloads up to 150 kilograms into a Sun-synchronous orbit at around 500km altitude. Payloads destined for low Earth orbit at the same altitude can weigh up to 250kg, provided they fit within the 1.5-meter diameter fairing.
SPACE ONE has developed single- and multi-satellite payload plans, and hopes to enter the commercial launch market as a"courier service."that the mission was aborted after striking unspecified trouble – qualifying the launch as less than a complete failure as it did not explode uncontrollably.Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacksJapan's space program has seen mixed success of late.
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