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Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture.
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Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture.
A Japanese rocket launched to send an experimental government satellite into space exploded just seconds after take-off, turning its launch pad into a giant fireball
The space startup still claimed the failed launch was “a big step forward” because the rocket had autonomously aborted the flight, as programmed Japan’s space…
Karios was carrying a small government test satellite but as it took off a huge plume of smoke engulfed the area and flames appeared
The launch was supposed to make SpaceOne the first private Japanese firm to put a satellite into orbit and help Japan in the global space race.