Weather of Arabia - Yesterday, Wednesday, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) issued an order to "self-destruct" a space rocket loaded with satellites, 45 minutes after taking off from the Oshinura Space Center in the Kagoshima region, according to several Japanese media, including state television, "that HK, and Kyodo News.
#Japan 's space agency says an unmanned rocket carrying satellites had to be aborted with a self-destruct command minutes after takeoff from the #Uchinoura Space Center in the southern Japanese prefecture of #Kagoshima . #PoliticalUprising #Epsilon6
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The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) did not immediately confirm the information reported by the media that the Epsilon-6 missile had received an order to self-destruct, after the agency discovered that it had a problem that prevented it from flying safely.
And cut off the live broadcast of the launch of the rocket from the Uchinura Space Center in the Kagoshima region (south), and commentators only said that "there is a problem", without giving any details.
According to several media, including state television, this is the first space rocket that Japan has failed to launch since 2003.
Epsilon is a solid-fuel missile that entered service in 2013, and since then it has been successfully launched 5 times.
The rocket was carrying the RAISE-3 satellite, which was to operate in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 560 km and an inclination of 97.6 degrees. Altogether, RAISE-3 was expected to last 13 months in orbit plus an additional month after launch to complete the initial procedures.
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