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A Japanese rocket exploded shortly after takeoff on Saturday, which compromised the country's ambition to send its first private rocket into space.
The MOMO-2 rocket took off around 5:30 local time (16:30 ET Friday) from a test site in Taiki, in southern Hokkaido.
The rocket was carrying observation equipment and the launch was supposed to bring it to an altitude of more than 100 kilometers (62
However, television footage showed that the 10-meter (33-foot) rocket was raised before crashing onto the launch pad and exploding in flames. [19659002] Although no injuries have been reported, the incident hit blow brought to Japan 's plans to send a private rocket into space. In July l' l blessure,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Last year, the engineers lost contact about a minute after another rocket was launched.
Interstellar Technologies, the company that developed the two rockets, said that it would continue its program of in spite of the problems encountered up to now, by becoming a subscriber
was founded in 2013 by Takafumi Horie, the creator of the popular Internet service provider Livedoor, a website design operation that has developed into an online portal. [19659002] Horie played a major role in modernizing the Japanese economy between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, but was later arrested in 2006 and sentenced to two years and six months in prison for accounting fraud
. So far, the space exploration program has fallen short of the results obtained by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).
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