2022 saw it's share of spaceflight success stories, but there were also plenty of missions that didn't go as planned.
Rockets need thousands of things to go right to reach space, but just one issue can bring things back down to Earth with a bang. This year has seen a record number of launch attempts, and so it is unsurprising that sometimes, things went wrong.
This still from a CCTV video shows scenes from the first successful launch of Hyperbola-1, a privately built orbital rocket built by the Chinese company iSpace. It lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on July 25, 2019. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on May 13. All seemed well early on according tobut silence followed in place of a confirmation of launch success. The Beijing-based company confirmed the loss of the rocket and its payloads and in Octoberthat the failure stemmed from an issue with the attitude control system. With no control over the direction of the rocket, a self-destruct command was activated.
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