Space One Kairos rocket explodes moments after launch in Japan

Japan's Space One Kairos rocket exploded shortly after launch on its inaugural trip on Wednesday (March 13) as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit.
The 18 metre (59 ft), four-stage solid-fuel rocket exploded seconds after lifting off just after 11:01 a.m. (0201 GMT), leaving behind a large loud of smoke and a fire near the launch pad on the tip of Kii peninsula in western Japan.
Kairos carried an experimental government satellite that can temporarily replace intelligence satellites currently in orbit if they fall offline.
#japan #karos #explosion
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[@Aurimas97]

The rocket must have felt like it dishonored the engineers in some way and had to do it.

[@jinvid]

😂😂😂 and committed harakiri

[@TheExtraTerrestrial]

Still amazes me that we humans supposedly had rocket launches down pat back in the 60s, but suddenly now, it's like we're on the struggle bus.

[@darko714]

There's always been a statistically small, but significant failure rate with rockets. The failures are 100% catastrophic and spectacular.

[@corpcapt2583]

uh, the only thing down Pat in the 60's was Nixon....Plenty of blown rockets then...

[@TheExtraTerrestrial]

@@darko714 Just funny that here we are, like 60 years later, with cell phones that are more powerful than the "computers" back then, and we still can't figure it out. At least we have another billion or so years to go before the Earth becomes uninhabitable due to the sun. Although, I'm sure we'll wipe ourselves out long before that.

[@DumbChosenUndead]

@TheExtraTerrestrial Sure we would wipe ourselves out before the end of the world...Less than 100 years passed from the bloodiest conflict in the world and we are going straight toward another conflict...

[@TheExtraTerrestrial]

@@captainkirk4271 Sure, and we're still struggling to put people on the moon again, even though we did it over and over 60 years ago. Very odd. Now, a country is lucky to get an unmanned lander there, and that's if their rocket doesn't explode. All this fancy tech and it's still so tough. Strange....

[@Arasaka107]

Now I know why rocket science is most difficult science

[@JACKDAWFISH]

It wasn't in the 60's.😂

[@cani5761]

EE is harder

[@byssmal]

Rapid unscheduled disassembly

[@georgesemchak539]

Rapid Disassembly of the Containment Vessel (came from one of my college instructors)

[@byssmal]

@@georgesemchak539 RUD was common in spacex mission.

[@Aviyel]

Use Toyota parts please

[@goldeneagle99]

Honda

[@professormcclaine5738]

Peugeot engine.

[@supermarno1980]

Yamaha YPVS

[@goldeneagle99]

@@supermarno1980 honda nsr all day long...

[@tjdavid21444]

The explosion looks to have originated above the second stage. Since this is a solid fuel rocket, it almost appears that a destruct command was issued.

[@ericwillison4011]

I was thinking about that too. Seemed like there was a little wiggle just before the explosion in the rocket's ascent.

[@zapfanzapfan]

From other footage I think the first stage blew it's "lid", which might be accident or self destruct.

[@johnmorgan2481]

How hard would it be to hack the self-destruct feature of a rocket? Considering the payload would be exactly what China wouldn't want in orbit in the midst of its territorial land grabs.

[@keithmoon3361]

What a pretty coastline.

[@corpcapt2583]

I thought the same thing...Great minds think alike..

[@user-zo4hq5bp3m]

Was 😂

[@miasfit84]

It was probably a bad Flux Capacitor.

[@bys551]

I studied this video thoroughly. The explosion was caused by excessive pressure not being contained sufficiently to promote upward thrust.

[@entropyachieved750]

Pity about the satellite.

[@atlanteum]

Those damned telekinetic kaiju...

[@VietNguyen-uz9pq]

The rocket has reached the Warp Speed. So fast we can’t see it no more.

[@risa_sh.youtube3244]

📌The universe desires peace. *Nam myoho rengekyo* 🙏 pray 🌍 peace 🕊️ be safe

[@grasthube]

They are learning from spaceX. New space agencies are becoming fireworks factories

[@liberumoratio1704]

That is very odd. What went wrong?

[@toomanybytes]

Today's"Japanese Rocket Launch" was sponsored by KZbin Shorts.

[@chodnejabko3553]

Explosion in the middle of the rocket. 2nd stage engines turn on prematurely.

[@corpcapt2583]

How was that free breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express this morning Mr. Clavin?

[@ChonkTek]

​@@corpcapt2583 this is quite stalkerish- care to clarify?

[@AmandaNicholeFisk]

​@ChonkTek factss I gotta know now too

[@user-qd6nn6sj5v]

Sometimes what goes up, may not always stay up and comes back down hard. It was almost like the rocket was saying "I'm not quite ready for this"

[@superbalaur1297]

Looks like the 1985 "Plaza Accord" …

[@zapfanzapfan]

Clean up on isle five, clean up on isle five... That is a gorgeous launch site though.

[@aaronw5345]

Man, and I thought stuff from Japan was reliable...

[@well9179]

Nope, Automotive only

[@anvicha7]

I am glad it's not Chinese-made

[@BottleBri]

What’s the bet someone was sitting somewhere, and pressed a button to make that happen

[@abraxusvolta9070]

How is it that rockets have been around for more than 50 years and yet engineers can still manage to mistake their way to this?

[@ReviewBoard-uy5nv]

Sabotaged

[@TubeLight588]

Kim Jong Un reading your comment be like give me a breake i was eating then.😅

[@jasonbjorn4536]

I feel like that sometimes after a Hibachi dinner.

[@well9179]

They should use a mighty chip from washing machine

[@localbod]

It's going to need more than a lick of paint methinks.

[@antonloof752]

Maybe the flight termination system went off, question is why? Could be anything, excessive shaking, loss of telemetry.

[@RedAndYellacuddlyFella]

I like to think the person in charge sneezed and pressed the button to detonate the rocket.

[@antonloof752]

@@RedAndYellacuddlyFella Actually not unrealistic, Roscosmos used to have a manually triggered FTS. An old launch hade the rocket tumble out of control, and after falling back down for several seconds, they finally pulled the trigger.

[@jimcrews6882]

Better to film in NBC Berkley studio

[@miasfit84]

That rocket brought Shame to Japan

[@PerfidiousAlbion1815]

Now that was a very expensive firework, feel sorry for all the folks who put hard work into it, back to drawing board I guess.

[@Mdan7]

Must have used crayons for the first drawing

[@britcat7780]

Even in a culture as engineering and precision enriched as Japan, making successful rocket launches is tough. Tough for the US in the 1950s and 60s, tough for Musk, now tough for Japan. Reminiscent of President Kennedy's famous statement "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

[@Joe_Blo]

What is the range of the laser beams that Godzilla emits from it's eyes?

[@corpcapt2583]

Can't help but think that Rodan was somehow involve in this..

[@BigKmaniac]

Mothra

[@PappyGunn]

I think a few Japanse engineers are going to have to call home and say they will be working late... Better luck next time.

[@charlesbaldwin387]

A kamakazi hit it. I saw it!!!

[@DedicatedSlaya]

The Butler did it! 🕵️

[@mssv19123]

Still cheaper then SpaceX explosion

[@vestavind]

Flap dang it!

[@cspdx11]

North Korea rarely has a unsuccessful launch

[@byssmal]

Fuel tank integrity failure?

[@g.herbert3810]

Sabotage anyone?

[@Billy-jn6te]

Should of put a TOYOTA badge on it it would of made it 😢

[@DrunkenDish]

Has anybody seen Mothra? I bet her dusty wings had a hand in this!

[@DrunkenDish]

So that's how they make perfect chop sticks. Right now, they are catching them in nets as they fall from sky.

[@crowbar3157]

Flex Seal will fix that

[@Bcr26420]

Woops...

[@glenwoofit]

Strange for solid fuel rocket to RUD.

[@wally7856]

Space shuttle enters the chat.

[@chrisalley9718]

Must have used Nissan gaskets instead of Toyota...

[@daveznothere]

News Flash - Boeing built this! 🚀 🔥

[@SaveThisRepublic]

5G interference? Okay which scientist broke protocol and used their cell phone?

[@ChonkTek]

Air seppuku

[@JohelSouza]

Monarch team failed? Oh no! Hurry up! Next must work! They are coming…

[@donaldgeorge3717]

Sorry.better luck next time.

[@VermutD]

Баки порвало?

[@Drazik0711]

Meh, that'll buff out.

[@CJWARNER]

Try again.

[@harrymetalhead3776]

We know what caused it....fire and rocket fuel

[@calculus8219]

So what

[@BotAnnan-jy5ve]

Depression may be the cause.

[@Xenophon1]

Nani !?!

[@stesrad]

Oops !

[@dirkdiggler2052]

Look at all that CO2 emissions.

[@shikyokira3065]

Miniscule compared to a volcano eruption

[@wally7856]

Zero actually. Its an aluminum-ammonium perchlorate solid rocket fuel. There is no CO2 released. Aluminum oxide, aluminum chloride, water vapor and nitrogen gas are the only byproducts released.

[@DumbChosenUndead]

Pollution released successfully...

[@avolite719]

Rut Row .....

[@Mike-db1nn]

Chinese sabotuers or chinese partrs used

[@professormcclaine5738]

👽 "Hahaha anytime "

[@jeffhaga]

I think I saw Mothra flying by for a second

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Hara kari

[@jnseney]

My question is why are launching rockets in the woods? Wouldn't that risk a forest fire?

[@fractal4284]

Call elon

[@caretakerfochr3834]

Yeah, he doesn't know anything about exploding rockets.

[@carlodumas1971]

@@caretakerfochr3834 forreal, he just know how to land it upright

[@caretakerfochr3834]

@@carlodumas1971 Sometimes.

[@Michael-fw5ef]

Died Suddenly

[@user-mr8xr8zm7k]

It's not rocket science! Oh, wait......😊😊🚀🚀

[@288JILL]

So lousy!

[@supermarno1980]

Still.. russia n US, both of them a king for rocket technology

[@TubeLight588]

please keep India in the photo please.😄

[@layheryanto9020]

So like nagasaki bom ww2 ?

[@williieloman1549]

Sabotage.

[@cepopeye]

nk like lol

[@JuanUvakind]

oopsseee

[@Jason-qq3fz]

Hahahahahahaha

[@johnsain]

"Russia!!!!!" - J Biden

[@xinma6034]

That’s a Toyota

[@TheoSmith249]

From my remote rustic log cabin, i heard a roar! I got my gun....a rocket appeared . I shot it.

[@mnkimlee1565]

일본이 일본했네 쯔쯔

[@kevinthomas5364]

So even Japan uses Made in China?

[@AlexandreM.I.]

Japan is really sinking...

[@Neilbear5820]

D.E.W ?

[@prezdentraygun8790]

NK or Putin

[@solaisamy.com02]

🙏🙏

[@tylerdurden4006]

Must be american backed. 😂

[@captainemeritus5927]

Fukudipshit

[@yiabwstetienne7474]

Global warming assistance.

[@andytran1897]

Japan thua trung cộng rồi.😢

[@coolbeans7349]

too much rice aboard

[@silentkiller-tj9tm]

日本も私たちをいつも助けてくれているので、インド政府は日本を助けなければなりません。インド人は皆、日本と肩を並べています。

[@ewetoobblows9169]

That’s not a space rocket lol that’s a rich man’s model rocket lol. It’s tiny.