Ground controllers were forced to destroy the vehicle after its second stage engines failed to ignite.
Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.
It was only afterthings started to go wrong, with ground controllers saying they weren’t able to confirm second stagethe rocket’s flight termination system, saying “there was noAboard the rocket was the ALOS-3 advanced Earth observation satellite, also known aspresumably destroyed as a result of the self-destruct. Beyond this, it’s not entirely clear what went wrong, but JAXA did say it’s
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