Short-lived: Space One’s Kairos rocket lifts off at the company’s launch pad on the Kii peninsula in Kushimoto, Wakayama prefecture. — Reuters
A JAPANESE space startup said its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff, nine months after the company’s first launch attempt ended in an explosion.
Space One’s Kairos No. 2 rocket lifted off yesterday from a site in the mountainous prefecture of Wakayama in central Japan.
