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RAKYATKU.COM, TAIKI – A rocket developed by a Japanese businessman, a maverick, exploded shortly after takeoff on Saturday
The rocket crash was a major blow, for attempts to rogue to send a rocket Interstellar Technologies, founded by a popular Internet service provider, the creator of Livedoor Takafumi Horie, launched a unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, around 5:30 in the morning (20h30 GMT Friday) from the test site. In Taiki, in the south of Hokkaido
but television shows showed a 10-meter (33-foot) rocket falling on the launch pad a few seconds after takeoff and fire
. The launch should send a rocket carrying observation equipment at a height of more than 100 kilometers (62 miles).
The failure followed a previous setback in July. a year ago, when the engineers lost contact with the rocket about a minute after the launch.
Interstellar Technologies says it will continue its rocket development program after badyzing its latest failures.Horie – which drives Ferrari – which helped Japan move to an informative economy in the late 1990s and at the end of the 1990s. early 2000s, but later spent nearly two years in prison for accounting fraud – founded Interstellar in 2013.
However, private sector-backed efforts to explore space did not managed to compete with the Japanese Government's Space Exploration Agency
But the private space also reaches new heights (literally) in the country. On Sunday, Momo, a start-up fueled in part by crowdfunding, launched Hokkaido's first commercial space rocket in Japan. The rocket was built by Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Unfortunately, the rocket did not reach its target height of 100 km. More than a minute before the launch, the ground crew lost communication with the rocket. This causes the initial shutdown of the machine; It is estimated to only reach a height of about 20 km.
If successful, it will be the first private rocket launched in Japan developed by a Japanese company. The rocket measured about 10 meters and weighed about one ton. The launch cost is 50 million yen (6.2 billion rupees). JAXA has spearheaded the nation's space efforts to date; the launch of their rocket cost between 200 million and 300 million yen (Rp25 billion – Rp38 billion).
The failure of some rockets would have been disappointing for Momo, but at this stage of development, any data is useful. Takafumi Horie, a Japanese businessman behind Momo, said on his Facebook page, "We can get valuable data that can bring success in the future."
Momo's goal was to successfully develop a rocket that could send a small satellite in low Earth orbit by 2020.
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