[LAUNCH FAILURE] JAXA Epsilon Rocket Launch | RAISE-3 & Others Mission

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency 1st launch of the year 2022.

RAISE-3 (Rapid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.

Launch Details:
Mission: RAISE-3 & OTHERS
Launch Rocket: EPSILON-6
Launch Site: Uchinoura Space Center, Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Launch Date & Time: October 11, 2022 – 8:50 p.m. EDT
Destination : LEO (low earth orbit)

PAYLOADS:
Small Demonstration Satellite-3 (RAISE-3)
Cubesat: MAGNARO (Nagoya University), MITSUBA (Kyushu Institute of Technology), KOSEN-2 (National Institute of Technology, Yonago College), WASEDA-SAT-ZERO (Waseda University), FSI-SAT (Future Science Institute)

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[EricIrl]

You can see from the telemetry that the second stage did not work properly. When the second stage took over, the speed dropped off rather than increased. Once the third stage took over, the speed started going up again but by then it was too late, the damage had been done and it was obvious that the payload was not going to achieve orbit. That's why the mission was terminated.

[RWBHere]

Even without understanding Japanese, their faces tell the story.
Better luck next time, JAXA.

[GregInTokyo]

Result: Failed after ignition of 3rd stage rocket. Vehicle was destroyed by ground controllers after telemetry showed it heading back down towards earth.

[mariusgrobler]

If Musk says "space is hard" then it's true.