On December 27th, 2024 China made its 68th and last launch attempt of the year. A Kinetica-1 (Lijian-1) rocket was launched at 01:03 UTC from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province.The initial launch of the solid propelled rocket went well as the first and second stage performed as expected. The third stage lost …
Category: Launch failures
Dec 28
Japanese commercial rocket Kairos fails for the 2nd time
On December 17, 2024, Japanese startup Space One, launched its Kairos rocket for the second time.At first, the launch from Spaceport Kii seemed to go well, however, the vehicle appeared to lose attitude control around two minutes after lift-off. It seemed to tumble and created a corkscrew contrail. Several hours after lift-off, Space One officials …