Japan's space agency had its first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years on Wednesday when a rocket carrying satellites failed just after liftoff and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command.
An Epsilon-6 rocket takes off from the launch pad at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, October 12, 2022. — Japan's space agency said a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff Wednesday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command. It was the country's first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years.
The Epsilon-6 rocket was not in the right position to orbit around the Earth and its flight had to be aborted less than seven minutes after takeoff from the Uchinoura Space Center in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency President Hiroshi Yamakawa told an online news conference.
An Epsilon-6 rocket takes off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, October 12, 2022.The Epsilon rocket was carrying eight payloads, including two developed by a private company based in Fukuoka, another southern prefecture. It was the first time an Epsilon rocket carried commercially developed payloads.Yasuhiro Uno, who directed the Epsilon-6 launch, acknowledged that the failure could affect Epsilon's possible launch business in the future.
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