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Online video showed the rocket called Kairos blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan, a mountainous area filled with trees, but exploding midair within seconds.
Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture.
Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture.
Japanese company Space One's Kairos rocket explodes during launch. Rocket took off from the platform at the scheduled time but exploded in the air just a few seconds later. The objective of the launch was to put an experimental government intelligence satellite into orbit after flying the rocket for about 50 minutes and reaching a height of 500 kilometers. The project was part of the Japanese aerospace industry's efforts to build smaller and cheaper shuttles, given the growing demand from the Government and other actors to deploy satellites.
Kairos carried an experimental government satellite that can temporarily replace intelligence satellites currently in orbit if they fall offline