Japan space The agency said that a missile carrying eight satellites failed just After taking off on Wednesday, he had to be aborted by order of self-destruction. in The state first failed missile launch in Almost 20 years.
It wasn’t the Epsilon 6 missile either in The correct position to orbit the Earth and its flight had to be aborted less than seven minutes after liftoff from Oceanora Space Center. in Southern Japan Prefecture of Kagoshima, head of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Hiroshi Yamakawa, said online news conspiracy.
“We deeply apologize for our failure to me live up for expectations” of local officials and those who They were involved in The development of The satellites said Yamakawa, pledging to help in investigating in cause of The failure.
JAXA officials said the agency sent the self-destruct signal After it was determined that the missile was not able to fly safely and enter a planned orbit. JAXA said the missile and its payloads are believed to have fallen into the East Sea of Filipinos.
The cause of The failure The agency said it is still under investigation.
The Epsilon missile carried eight payloads, including two developed by private company based in Fukuoka, another southern prefecture. It was first Time Transmitted by a Commercial Epsilon Rocket developed payloads.
Yasuhiro Ono, who Epsilon-6 launch face, admitted that failure Can affect epsilon possible release business in The future. Commercial launch under promotion versionEpsilon-S, by IHI Aerospace, a Japanese company, is being planned for vietnam satellite next year.
“our first And above all mission is to investigate the cause And they took action firmly.”
26 meters (85 feet) – 95.6- tallton The Epsilon 6 solid-fuel missile is a final version by JAXA plans To develop another form, Epsilon-S. After five upgrades since early 2010, the Epsilon 6 . is now designed for Compact launch as JAXA aims to develop commercial satellite launch business.
Wednesday failure is over success records for Epsilon series since to first release of The original version in 2013. Can also a first for JAXA since the launch of the H2A missile failed in 2003.
Launch, originally scheduled for last Friday, he was late because location of GPS satellite in space.
