Japan launched a "quasi-intercontinental missile". It thought 2022 was Japan's "highlight moment", but it did not expect it to end in failure.
What's going on?
On October 12, 2022, according to the Japanese NHK TV station,
Japanese small rocket "Epsilon" No. 6 carries eight satellites . It failed to launch in Ganfu Town, Kagoshima Prefecture at 9:50 am on the 12th. The rocket suddenly malfunctioned while rising and was destroyed long-range.
and then NHK TV station once again said that was the first failed launch of the "Epsilon" solid fuel rocket.
is also the first time that Japan's main rocket failed to launch again since the H2A Rocket 6 in 2003.
What kind of existence is "Epsilon"?
I think it is very ordinary because it is not very well-known.
"Epsilon" It is an small launch vehicle successfully developed by Japan's aerospace research.
Its purpose is to send an Earth observation satellite into a predetermined orbit, and , and its future goal is to enter the international commercial satellite launch market.
"Epsilon" rocket is a three-stage solid-fuel rocket with a total length of 26 meters and a diameter of 2.6 meters. can launch a payload weighing 1,500 kilograms into low-Earth orbit. The rocket completed its first launch in September 2013.
According to Japanese media reports: the launch cost of the "Epsilon" rocket reached 260 million yuan, less than half of the launch cost of the main launch vehicle of Japan.
But since the H2A rocket debuted in August 2001, all of the previous 5 launches have been successful, but failed in the sixth launch, the rocket has suspended its launch.
So, what caused it to be destroyed remotely this time?
According to Japanese aerospace research and development agency , they judged that the rocket could not fly safely, and sent a signal to destroy the fuselage, and the rocket exploded in the air. Such destruction orders will not cause damage to people and facilities on the ground.
It is worth mentioning that according to netizens, the live broadcast screen of the launch site was temporarily suspended, and the live broadcast record of its official oil pipeline channel was also deleted.
What kind of slutty operation is this?
Do they think that the failure of the rocket launch is a very "shame" thing?
Is it a normal event for the rocket to launch failure?
In fact, this kind of thing is normal. is the saying that success comes with failure. is not smooth on the aerospace road, and there must be ups and downs in it.
Of course, we can't fall from the same place, stand up from where we fall, and at the moment we stand up, we have to do better and better.
comes! Let's look at several cases of rocket launch failures.
On October 28, 2014, NASA launched the unmanned rocket "Scorpio".
was launched at the launch station in Virginia at 6:22 pm, and less than a few seconds after the launch, the Scorpio exploded on the launch pad.
May 13, 2022, the fourth launch of my country's private commercial launch vehicle - " Hyperbola 1 ".
was fired at at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. As the launch rocket flew abnormally shortly after it took off, finally fell to the ground, and the launch mission ended in failure.
On the morning of September 12, 2022, the "New Shepard" rocket carried out a non-manned mission and launched from the company's "Starting Site" located in Texas .
This launch is the 23rd mission of the New Shepard, aiming to send NASA-funded experiments and other payloads into suborbitals and float for a few minutes under microgravity conditions.
However, just one minute after it was launched, was about 8050 meters above the ground, and the rocket's booster engine suddenly "accidentally caught fire."
Fortunately, in a critical moment, the escape system of the capsule was successfully started, and the unmanned capsule was separated from the booster. No casualties were caused.
Of course, it is not only our country, the United States, but also other countries.
For example, On October 4, 2022, South Korea planned to launch a "Xuanwu-2C" ballistic missile with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers that night. What about the result of
? An abnormality occurred, directly hitting his own base and causing a fire, but fortunately it did not cause personal injury.
To sum up, whether it is launching a rocket or launching a missile , it will fail for some reasons.
But this does not mean that we have to give up on it, and we even think that it must be bad. That's it!
! This failure just believes that we do not understand it enough and need deeper understanding and improvement in order to maximize its power in important places.
As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Only by constantly conducting experiments and experimenting multiple times can you achieve better results in this and make it play its most important role!
