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Tokyo (AFP) – A rocket launched by a nonconformist Japanese contractor and a convicted fraudster exploded shortly after takeoff on Saturday, thus bringing a hard blow to his attempt to send Japan's first private rocket into l & # 39; space.
Interstellar Technologies Takafumi Horie, the famous creator of Livedoor, launched the unmanned MOMO-2 rocket around 5.30am (8.30pm GMT Friday) in Taiki, in the south of the country, in Hokkaido. A rocket (33 feet) falls on the launch pad a few seconds after takeoff and burst into flames.
No injuries were reported during the spectacular explosion.
The launch was to send the rocket carrying the observation equipment to an altitude
The failure follows a previous setback in July of last year, when the engineers lost contact with a rocket about a minute after launch.
Interstellar Technologies sai He was continuing his rocket development program after analyzing the last failure.
The bizarre Horie, who drove Ferrari, helped Japan move to an information-based economy in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Years of imprisonment for accounting fraud – founded Interstellar in 2013.
However, the efforts supported by the private sector to explore space from Japan have so far failed to compete with the agency. aerospace exploration of Japan.
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