{"id":23947,"date":"2024-03-13T01:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/space-one-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch-in-japan\/13\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T01:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:17:56","slug":"space-one-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/space-one-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch-in-japan\/13\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Space One Rocket Explodes Seconds After Launch in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first rocket launched by the Japanese start-up Space One <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/mhs7QEvGv6Q?si=B5WQ4m35PSIkr-pg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exploded<\/a> seconds after takeoff on Wednesday, denting its ambition to become the country\u2019s first private company to put a satellite into orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space-one.co.jp\/index_e.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kairos<\/a> solid-fuel rocket launched just after 11 a.m. local time and burst into flames less than ten seconds later, livestreams of the launch showed. The explosion left behind a large plume of smoke and set off a fire in a nearby forest that firefighters were battling to extinguish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 60-foot-long rocket weighs 23 tons and was launched from Space Port Kii in Wakayama Prefecture on Japan\u2019s main island, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosion or whether anyone was injured. Space One did not respond to requests for comment early Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/13\/world\/asia\/japan-rocket-space-one-kairos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first rocket launched by the Japanese start-up Space One exploded seconds after takeoff on Wednesday, denting its ambition to become the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/space-one-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch-in-japan\/13\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}