SelfDestruct

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In a Twitter audio chat on Saturday, SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, shared more details about what went awry during the first fully integrated Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster launch in April. One of the biggest revelations: The self-destruct setting took 40 seconds to work — a seemingly short time, except when you're uncertain if the massive rocket you just launched will blow up before hitting land. To recap the day's events, the rocket and booster cleared the launch pad before being unable to separate from each…

During its brief first flight more than a week ago, the gigantic Starship rocket made by SpaceX generated an unanticipated "rock tornado" at launch, and multiple engines failed as it headed upward before it somersaulted out of control.Then, said Elon Musk, the company's founder, in an update delivered during a Twitter audio chat Saturday night, the end of the flight was tenser than it should have been. An automated self-destruct command did not immediately destroy Starship. Instead, 40 seconds passed before the rocket…

The H3 rocket left the pad but was destroyed shortly after first stage separation. Gif: JAXA/GizmodoSpace is hard—even in 2023. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, instead of celebrating the launch of its new H3 rocket, is now trying to figure out what went wrong during today’s failed flight.The two-stage H3 rocket left the pad on schedule, rising into the sky at 8:37 p.m. ET from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. It was only after first stage separation that things started to go wrong, with ground controllers…

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The doomed Epsilon-6 rocket launching from the the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan. Photo: Kyodo (AP)The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, destroyed its Epsilon-6 rocket mid-flight on Tuesday, resulting in the loss of eight commercial satellites that were included in the rideshare mission, local media reported.JAXA sent out the self-destruct command to the solid-fuel rocket after space agency officials noted that the rocket was deviating from its proper trajectory and would not complete its mission. It’s the…

Japan's space agency said it sent a self-destruct order to its Epsilon rocket after a failed launch on Wednesday because of a problem that meant the craft could not safely fly.The unmanned rocket, designed to launch in three stages, was taking several satellites into orbit on its sixth space mission."The rocket can't continue a safe flight, because of the danger it would create if it falls on the ground," a JAXA official said in comments broadcast by TBS television network."So we took measures to avoid such an incident,…