Japan’s space agency says an unmanned rocket carrying satellites had to be aborted with a self-destruct command minutes after takeoff from the Uchinoura Space Center in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima.
The failure of the Epsilon-6 rocket on Wednesday, which was not in the right position to orbit the Earth and had to be aborted less than seven minutes into its flight, marks Japan’s first failed rocket launch in almost 20 years.
