{"id":149199,"date":"2022-10-14T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=149199&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-14T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:37:56","slug":"rocket-carrying-satellites-developed-in-fukuoka-fails","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/rocket-carrying-satellites-developed-in-fukuoka-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Carrying Satellites Developed in Fukuoka Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epsilon No. 6 was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m. on Oct. 12. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), an anomaly occurred on the rocket, and about six and a half minutes after launch, a signal was sent to destroy the vehicle. The cause of the anomaly is not yet known. This is the first launch failure for the Epsilon. Epsilon was equipped with a satellite developed by QPS Laboratories, a venture company in Fukuoka City, and a factory in Kurume City. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxa.jp\/press\/2022\/10\/20221012-2_j.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JAXA<\/span><\/a> <b>\/ <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20221012\/5010017747.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149201\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_epsilon_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C789&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rocket Carrying Satellites Developed in Fukuoka Fails\" width=\"1400\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_epsilon_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_epsilon_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_epsilon_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_epsilon_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon No. 6 was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m. on Oct. 12. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":149211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-149199","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kagoshima-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/149199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}