Japanese space rocket crashes & explodes seconds after launch (VIDEO)
The launch of privately developed Japanese sounding rocket MOMO-2 resulted in a catastrophic failure, as the spacecraft crashed back to Earth after only a few seconds in flight. The rocket exploded, damaging the ground facilities. The MOMO rocket family is developed by a private startup company with the ambitious name ‘Interstellar Technologies.’ The rocket was launched from Taiki, Hokkaido prefecture early on Saturday morning.
>Japanese space rocket crashes & explodes seconds after launch >ASK RUSSIANS FOR HELP Great, now the next missile is going to crash into an civilian airliner and explode and then Russia will blame ukraine engineers.
John Phillips
You can’t seriously expect a rocket named MOMO-2 to work outside anime.
Jeremiah Reyes
They should call it Katana just my 2 cents
Angel Diaz
>It's the Ruskie who always goes LOL everytime someone tells him he is an idiot.
If I'm not mistaken we had to burn/delete the Saturn 5 plans to get the Space Shuttle because of Russia, due to some treaty. I could be totally wrong about that tho
Colton Watson
>not using electrogravitics
Ethan Cox
Falcon design was made by NASA in the late 80's early 90's
How many private rocket launches has Russia accomplished so far? That's rite, zero
Hudson Ross
JAXA just landed on a fucking asteroid a couple days ago. ROSCOSMOS hasn't done anything except ferry Westerners to the ISS in the last 20 years. Roscosmos is an absolute joke of an agency that gets all their money from their space taxi. I think, even by 2050, 2100, 2200 even while all the other space agencies are establishing colonies on Mars, Roscosmos will still be ferrying people to the ISS 200 miles away.
It's even funnier when you realize in 2006 Roscosmos begged JAXA for funding their reusable piloted aircraft. And they cancelled that project, too.
that was Bezos, not Musk. And he did it for publicity and personal historical interest, not for the tech. Blue Origin's hydrolox engines are already far more advanced.
Brody Ramirez
it already has a cute witch mascot, in fact.
Thomas Torres
google Angara
Cameron Green
>hydrolox I thought they were doing methane?
Colton Cruz
That thing looks more like a hobby rocket than a commercial rocket, what are they planning on even doing with a rocket that size?
Daniel Barnes
Actually AFAIK japan is not allowed to have active guided rockets. They have to use pre 1950'era techniques for stabilization and orbital insertion.
you can blame whoever "won" WWII
Blake Hughes
So blame the Jews?
Ethan Nguyen
It's not easy... that's why they call it "rocket science".
Elijah Hall
SCATSAT > MOMOS Bitches
Tyler Kelly
Russia is about to send its 70th cargo run to the ISS the rest of the world have done 7 or 8
John Torres
they just sent them to archive to never find again. few years back, it was in news.
Grayson Wood
You're alright poo
Thx Russia bro
Jaxson Nguyen
The CIA are sabotaging for Space X, probably
Connor Hall
The japanese are pragmatic, if their tech is nit working, they sent people to study with whose is working. They'll reverse engineer russian tech, as they did with american/euro tech before and succeded.
it's craud funded project. last launch cost was about $500.000, they developing and testing technology. they still have a long way to go, but they doing at least something. if unreal high prices and labor cost in Japan wont ruin it all, they will succeed
user, our fathers and grandfathers were the pinnacle of all human culture, before the great decline. They were the accumulation of all of Humanity's knowledge.
To suggest that Gen Z'rs or even Gen X'rs could even fathom what men of technical persuasion knew in the 1960s is absurd.
Elijah Johnson
This is true and it's a great achievement but it seems that era is coming to an end. Proton will be phased out, the new rocket programs are struggling for funding and under extreme price pressure from SpaceX for commercial launch. When the NASA commercial crew program finally wraps up that will be a blow to Soyuz, as well.
Parker Diaz
SpaceX rocket explodes on launch pad >Damn man, that sucks. MOMO-2 Explodes after booster failure and subsequent crash >LOL JAPAN SUCKS, FUCK THOSE CHINESE FAGGOTS God, I hate you niggers in disguise.
Jow Forums is full of people, including Americans, celebrating every SpaceX failure and problem because it "proves" Elon Musk is just a meme man and space is fake or whatever.
Brody Roberts
no they don't , they just launch them from Kazakhstan now cause cheeper, but still Rus.
Austin Wilson
Asking russian for help means setting back your progress thousands of years: seriously, what do you think happened to the Thuleans? >"Hey Magomed, mind helping me with this new thing, it's called jet engine?" >" JA NE PONIMAJU BRATAN ))) OJ BRATAN, JA XOCHU JEBAT' ETU SABAKU BRATAN, POSMATRIJ MENJA! )))))"
Jackson Adams
kek
Jackson Clark
Japanese transistor radio!
Lincoln Evans
Japs reverse engineer everything, for them will not be that difficult reverse engineer all YOU thought and created in the last century, Ivan. If you dont pay attention to the nips they'll surpass you in your own game. You russkues are assembly lines of ideas and math. The nips can assembly line your assembleness.
Adrian Stewart
or, Muh Dik
Andrew White
>Oй,бpaтaн я хoчy eбaть этy caбaкy бpaтaн, пocмaтpий мeня!
Honestly any advancement of spacecraft technology is something to be celebrated. Elon Musk didn't have to make SpaceX, sure he makes a fuckton of money, but he's doing something to push us towards the stars. The people celebrating failures and mistakes of SpaceX and Interstellar Industries contribute nothing to that.
the truth is rocket engines are still pretty much the same just with more modern tech, and microchips and what not, and that's it.
soyuz is actually the safest for now, not sure about those chinese rockets the chinese are building. esa might have some solid ones but yeah, space is hard
Jack Gutierrez
> Blue Origin > Implying they're not jerking themselves off making tech for rocket self-landing > Implying they're not fucking up by failing to simply scale up the Saturn V design 10x then use Amazon logistics tech to build it cheaply
Ian Garcia
The Russians should be working to refine the Soyuz craft, if a cheaper and safer alternative is found it will be pretty bad for business
It is a marvel of engineering, I'd hate to see it shelved
That's the difference, jew. Russians and Americans lost more rockets to failure than Japan will ever launch meaning acquiring invaluable experience in the process.
Go read Torah and work on how to let most of sub-Saharan Africa into the EU
Liam Hernandez
With the shoestring budget they have i would say they are pretty great, they are just realistic, while nasa and esa is selling mist "WE WILL BE BUILDING SPACE DOMES IN TEN YEARS", roscosmos just goes "okay you can do this, and this is impossible", which makes all the space dweebs cry.
Musk's rockets are just slicker, better looking in my opinion, until nasa gets involved again.
John Adams
I need to see art of her trying to fly, falling and exploding. I want it now.
Aaron Butler
Should have asked the Indians. We would have given Japan the best tech for their money.
Eli Gray
>privately developed sounding rocket That's not a big deal. They're small and just fly up to collect data, they don't go to space
Ayden Edwards
slavs are masters at lobbing explosive things at your face, must be the inner mongol thinking it's a bow and arrow
LAUNCH SOYUZ FOR KHAAAAANNN URAAAHBGHVJFHB
Justin Edwards
For those interested, China has a lunar mission, and has already landed a probe on the Moon. I know - wow, great achievement lol - but that was in 2013. Next year, they're launching a sample retrieval mission, which is basically just a dry run for a manned mission in 2030.
Personally, I'm looking forward to it. China is the only major nation nowadays who actually cares about manned space exploration, and perhaps a successful mission will encourage the USA - just like how the Soviets kick started the US space programme - to start conquering the Solar System again.
Just to think - the Chinese man (and it will be a man) who lands on the Moon is alive right now. Probably still a kid - maybe genetically engineered - who's currently right now in some class with other, genetically engineered Chinese boys, learning advanced mathematics in between vigorous physical exercise.
Jordan Rivera
it would be kinda cool if space engineers in russia developed competing guilds like reneissance artists
>bah, igor, you savage! proton is the pinnacle! >vasily, you fool! you shall see when i design my next rocket!
then they swagger around moscow and fight each other over what is better, mir or iss
Aiden Jackson
not necessarily, considering even african nations now launch shit into space, for tv and gps and what not. but it is pretty disappointing, we just get these pie in the sky promises and then nothing happens
Looked for the source of your pic. Don't know much about Miyazaki, but he wasn't amused, and he has a point.
Joseph Watson
>hahaha fucking slav subhumans! >roscosmos is dead, dead! whahaha >esa is best! nasa best! soyuz shit! >never work good!
>works okay >most used rocket in world >because it does not look stylish, and does not make nerd feel involved, it is bad >also, rocket is russian, russians are evil, praise LGBT
the biggest mistake west made was to invent "pop science", now every fag thinks he is involved and it is "his" achievement, while at the same time ranting about white inventors in books. FUCK pop science fags and their space fetish, they are just consumers. they already turned on musk, it is not about space, but about them.
Juan Clark
Perhaps the Japanese shouldn't have chimped out before getting anally annihilated
Luke Russell
>the Russians are still using old cold war era rockets, I don't think they know how to build new ones either
russians know what they are doing, they are now interestingly forced in a much more capitalist setting than america in space terms, and some americans mock russians for having cheap rockets, like wtf, and at the same time talk how mexicans are stealing jobs.
cheap rockets are not bad rockets, they are just the most disposable and useful ones. i dont like the worship of "slick" engineering, and false promises - make it realistic, say what will be achieved, and tell the space nerds to fuck off if they themselves are not participating.
Logan Brown
isn't india now into making ICBM's and what not to compete with china? chinese have a spacelab now, and had some new rocket, will be interesting to see.
Robert Bailey
I haven't said anything about the Russians. If the Russians make good rockets and are still doing R&D, then I'm all for it. SpaceX and Interstellar Technologies are doing the same thing. My point is that the fags who are entertained by the failures are not really doing anything of value, while the private space companies are.
Space launch is a global market, though. SpaceX is launching more Falcons every year, so they're getting economies of scale plus the potential cost reductions from reusability. It's possible to forsee a future where Angara is not competitive with Falcon even for AFROSAT-tier payloads. Probably won't be quite that bad, but this is a problem for everybody - ULA, Ariane, etc... Most expected SpaceX to fail.
Camden Nguyen
>soyuz is actually the safest for now, ^^^THIS^^^ NO NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL. RUSSIANS ARE VERY SMART. ONLY DUMB AMERICANS THINK THAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE SOMETHING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGING.
Caleb Russell
The true reason chinks might succeed is because they - thank god - dont have to deal with amateurs pretending they know shit - it is just scientists doing government funded research instead of western pseudo-populist approach where there are no missions because they want to micro-manage whiteness or oppression of mission or whatever.
chinese just find the smartest guys, put them in a room, say - design this, or steal russian or american and reverse engineer and launch.
Nathan Roberts
>Musk's rockets are just slicker, better looking in my opinion, until nasa gets involved again. Who gives a fuck how the rocket looks like. What a useless concept. It has to work properly-safely.
James Baker
Renesas owns Intersil
Grayson Foster
>Interstellar Technologies Toplel
Nathan Ramirez
true, true. but right now SpaceX is doing beginner stuff, it might take some time for the process to develop, and the most important thing might not be just the rockets but the legal system - since they are a private company, there will be laws in the future - if rocket collapses who pays damages (this is already being brought as SpaceX just destroyed an israeli satellite with a failed launch), how to split profits and so on.
Hopefully, it would be good for all that CAN compete - rocket engines are the only tech that has somehow stalled in growth, microchips and stronger cameras mean shit when you have to measure payload for pound, when we reach into kilogram or tonne territory and that is considered cheap, it will be easy.
SpaceX might prove good, but us gov must get involved soon, as chinese are going agressively in pushing for space technologies, they want capabilities to build them natively, which will mean - worst case scenario, SpaceX competes with soyuz AND chinese cheap, mass produced rockets
Mason Nguyen
This is called “cheating”; the ultimate admission of defeat
Dylan Cooper
that's what i am talking about. it is NOT the greatest thing in the universe - but two cool videos, one launched car into space, and everyone thinks it's a spaceship compared to soyuz which looks like an industrial monster
