{"id":186440,"date":"2024-03-31T04:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch"},"modified":"2024-03-31T04:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:25:17","slug":"rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Explodes Seconds After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-explodes-seconds-after-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet another major setback for the company, which was hoping to become Japan\u2019s first commercial entity to launch a satellite into orbit, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/13\/world\/asia\/japan-rocket-space-one-kairos.html\" class=\"\"><em>New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drone footage shows the dramatic scene. At first, everything appears to go fine as the solid-fuel rocket dubbed Kairos lights its engines. But it doesn\u2019t take long for the rocket to seemingly veer off path, erupting into a massive cloud of smoke just seconds later, causing major pieces of debris to rain down on the launch pad and engulf parts of the facility and a neighboring forest in flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today. It\u2019s yet another major setback for the company, which was hoping to become Japan\u2019s first commercial entity to launch a satellite into orbit, the New York Times reports. Drone footage shows the dramatic scene. At first, everything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}