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According to Japanese media reports, on the last day of June, early in the morning, missile launched extremely unsuccessfully at the Hokkaido Island training ground “MOMO” No. 2, developed by a private company Interstellar Technologies (see video).
The rocket was a carrier ten meters long and with a diameter of about half a meter. Its total weight was 1.15 tons. At take off “MOMO” No. 2 something went wrong, and therefore it is already through a few seconds returned to the ground, which is why at the start site there was a strong explosion. True, none of the people from him Suffered.
As Japanese journalists specify, the MOMO rocket No. 2 was supposed to rise at least 100 kilometers above the surface of the earth. This space project was funded by donations. citizens of the Land of the Rising Sun, he collected about 28 million yen from almost a thousand people.
The media also reminded readers that last year, July 30, the same a private company launched the MOMO rocket from the same training ground Number 1, which in a minute fell into the Pacific Ocean. Current the launch was even less successful and even deadly for him organizers …
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