Interstellar Technologies sounding rocket suffers anomaly during launch

Interstellar Technologies Momo-F5 sounding rocket suffered an anomaly during launch on June 14, 2020 that forced the Japanese private spaceflight company to issue an abort command that sent the booster crashing into the Pacific Ocean. -- Japan's Interstellar Technologies fails to reach space with private rocket launch: https://www.space.com/interstellar-technologies-momo-f5-rocket-launch-failure.html

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