Two rocket launches in one day?
YES!
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It's JAPAN TIME desu senpai
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japan makes cute rockets
GET IN HERE LADS
>T-minus 00:15:00
>480p
HALP
The quality of their stream is quite contrasting to SpaceX's fancy stuff. I just hope it's not going to be shaking wildly as we watch the rocket go up.
>garden sprinklers engaged
I think the guy put it on a tripod, thankfully.
just pretend it's 2007
Christ I can't shake the feeling Godzilla will crest that hill any moment.
T-5:00
>Michael J Fox on camera operations
>launch delayed
wow, I hit that exactly
lets try one more time
T-2:00
5 star post
NANI????????
>off by 1 second
>flat earthers in the chat
less than a min
that went off like a rocket
>Nutted but he still counting
did something happen? it seems like it flamed out way early
Given that it's far too small to have any launch cameras on it, I'm guessing that's all we're going to see until someone tells us what happened?
I think it just left the troposphere when the smoke cut out or just temperature change in the atmosphere..
GOTTA GO FAST!
The first stage was only supposed to last a short while. It then uses that momentum to get high enough, then the second stage gives it the required horizontal velocity.
It's quite an odd ascent profile.
No time to wait around
JAPAN BUSY. WE WORK NOW
>burnout at only 26km
>coast the rest of the way out of the atmosphere
dang, they are eating a lot of drag losses with that profile.
see for the accent profile pic
Woah. Did it actually work
>Press conf: telemetry lost at T+20s during first stage burn. Stage 1 separated from stage 2. Both splashed in expected St1 area
Jesus. That must have been flying uncontrolled for a very long time.
why is japan so bad at space stuff?
aren't they one of the global leaders in technology
I've noticed this too. Japan seems to have a lot of mishaps with space endeavors...
first flight of a new launch system is expected to fail, desu. Especially when it is pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved.
Japan's first orbital attempt is the previous record holder for smallest orbital rocket, and it wasn't successful until the fifth flight.
Japan is on par with other agencies as far as flight reliability goes.
Dnno whats the point of a really small rocket/payload
>go straight up
>turn 90 degrees
>continue burn
>orbit