'Destruct command!' Japan's new H3 rocket fails to deliver payload to orbit
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Japans' first H3 rocket launch ended with an anomaly that forced JAXA mission control to transmit a 'destruct command' to the vehicle. The rocket launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on March 6, 2023 (0137 GMT on March 7) carrying the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3 (ALOS-3). Full Story: www.space.com/japan-h3-rocket...
Credit: JAXA
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This is when you really appreciate SpaceX launch cameras…
@TrixMC
Жыл бұрын
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@joshbingham7774
Жыл бұрын
SpaceX is also a private company, so sharing those engineering camera live feeds during launch coverage is free advertising and makes for a much more interesting broadcast. I was still fascinated watching them launch another batch of starlink sats just the other day!
@OCRay1
Жыл бұрын
@@joshbingham7774 Sure but most rocket companies these days are private and nobody provides people with the coverage that SpaceX does. They are a very transparent company with everything they do, within reason obviously. They have to keep some secrets so companies and countries don’t copy, eg. blue origin & China.
@oo0Spyder0oo
Жыл бұрын
@Jack not the lens fault though is it? It’s the guy holding the camera who can’t keep an eye on the thing…he had one job…😂
@F14AB
Жыл бұрын
No doubt, terrible camera operation lol
This was reported and handled very well. When we learned to walk, we fell down many times. We did not stop trying. Now look at me go! Respect.
@tonyvelasquez6776
Жыл бұрын
Daichi ton tuko ma te shukoi
@bermchasin
Жыл бұрын
true. Seems like spaceX has it down now.
@linshitaolst4936
Жыл бұрын
Failure is not terrible. What is really terrible is that you still believe this sentence
@luismartinez6408
Жыл бұрын
This is not learning to walk
@matthewwagner47
Жыл бұрын
It was handled?, Call it whatever you want. It's called epic fail and wasted millions of dollars. We are supposed to trust these fool to launching nuclear missiles, lmao. Check
Thank you Japan for your transparency. Honest updates. Honest emotions in their voices. Good luck with the next launch
@kadiummusic
Жыл бұрын
Pity NASA isn't transparent.
@OokamiCreed
Жыл бұрын
@@kadiummusic That's just a straight up lie. Maybe China and Russia isn't honest with their space programs, but everyone else is.
@philiptexter1789
Жыл бұрын
@KADIUM | 3D Retro Pop! true, but I was more comparing to China and Russia. They are far worse than nasa. The best country thus far at transparency is Japan, then the private sector (Space x) and even rocket lab in New Zealand
@FlyAgaric525
Жыл бұрын
@@philiptexter1789 whatever the US does, Russia always does better. This includes medicine, as well. And no, Russia shouldn't be transparent, especially our scummish country and degeneracy our country has fallen into. The people born in US are such losers, always believing this country's propaganda.
@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu
Жыл бұрын
@@philiptexter1789 What? China is the only country that owns a space station. China has landed on the moon and Mars. How many times has Japan landed on the moon and Mars? Japan continues to fail in its spacecraft launch in April 2023
Getting something into low Earth orbit is extremely difficult. SpaceX makes it look easy now, but they had a lot of failures in the beginning and almost failed as a company until they got the recipe right. Hopefully JAXA was able to get telemetry and data before the self destruct command was sent to help them figure out why the second stage didn't light. Good luck to JAXA and hope to see the next launch achieve mission objectives. Learn, iterate, retry, and repeat.
@ancipital
Жыл бұрын
SpaceX ran many build/test/fail/analyse/build/test/fail/analyse which got them so much data that they could build on to get reliable launch vehincles. It's an expensive way to do it but long term gets very high long term success rates. it's the same method that the russians used to use in their heyday.
@michaeldemarco9950
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@inisipisTV
Жыл бұрын
JAXA have been launching satellites for decades. The rockets they use is quite dependable. Makes me wonder if there is a problem in the manufacturing of the new engines.
@davidstinger1134
Жыл бұрын
Japan has rockets and has been launching satellites on their own for a long time. It's just a problem with their current iteration.
@forbidden-cyrillic-handle
Жыл бұрын
The real problem is that there are many space agencies and a company who knows how to do this and even harder things, but they are unwilling to share. Companies obviously will not share critical information, as that means they increase the risk of being out of business sooner rather than later. But I have no idea why NASA or ESA didn't share how to do it reliably. Last in-flight engine failure NASA had was in 1985. So they learned, obviously.
We indian 🇮🇳 support Japan. Keep working
I am so sorry that the launch was not successful - the hard work of the engineers and scientists and support crew are to be commended. Also for staying with the broadcast and showing the world the outcome, a lot of other organisations would not have had it publicly shown.
@dolwolfianphotography
Жыл бұрын
Well Space X showed all the exploding rocket fail to land on the drone ship too 😏
@DuchesnesCorner
Жыл бұрын
@Dolwolfian Photography Yes. Every spacex fail was made public the way it should be.
@yerrie1908
Жыл бұрын
@@dolwolfianphotography millions watched the space shuttle explode live on TV with people in it, his comment doesn’t make a lot of sense
@lukemorton8431
Жыл бұрын
I call it a success just hopefully now China rocket starship goes wrong.
@dolwolfianphotography
Жыл бұрын
@@yerrie1908 wanted to be gentle 😏
Sorry to see this. Hopefully the fault can be quickly identified and remedied.
Love from India 🇮🇳 Better luck next time..
As heartbreaking as it always is with lauches such as this one, failure is an unavoidable part of success. And success for JAXA will come, hard won, well deserved.
@jye7027
10 ай бұрын
really? another rocket exploded today
Sorry to hear this as all appeared to be going well. I think your presenters did gracefully explain the situation. Thank you.
@Ionization2020
Жыл бұрын
Shocked nothing was blurred out......
Why do these Japanese space episodes seem like old James Bond movie scenes ….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm rooting for our friends in Japan. They'll get things resolved I have no doubt.
@jennyohara4011
Жыл бұрын
how many hundreds of thousand of our young boys died fighting these people..how can you be rooting for them?
@jaleru
Жыл бұрын
@@jennyohara4011 With that logic I wonder how Native and Black Americans feel about you...
@evilboy6966
Жыл бұрын
@@jennyohara4011 If you truly don’t understand then maybe you need to re-evaluate your life. The past is the past, and yes it should never be forgotten but who are we to hold grudges against future generations?
@frankcarlone5130
Жыл бұрын
@@jennyohara4011 How many hundreds of thousands of their civilians were vaporized when we dropped two bombs on them? I think that evened the score, don't you? Last time I checked, we're friends now and they are a very strong and loyal ally. We've all moved on, perhaps you should join the rest of us?
@dpjb38
Жыл бұрын
@@frankcarlone5130 then just wait until they stab u in the back like in 80s they r snakes as always
Very sorry for what happened. I wish you all the best for your next missions
Sad outcome but this is part of the process. It makes me shake my head in awe of what SpaceX does...successfully launching rockets like trains pulling out of a station, landing boosters on postage stamp sized barges in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...just an amazing company. It's not just money as evidenced by Blue Origin and their struggles despite enormous resources.
@mohamedabouelmagd8781
Жыл бұрын
It's Elon Musk! 💪
This visual of altitude and range is probably the best I have seen, very impressive!!
The transparency in this launch is beautiful... It's so honest...
@Crosbie85
Жыл бұрын
And that’s why I love the Japanese
@neutrinos11111111
Жыл бұрын
Ahahahaha Japan's PR team is so good they can turn a blatant failure into a circlejerk about how great they are
@MrCarGuy
Жыл бұрын
@@neutrinos11111111 Show me one PR department that doesn't do this
I appreciate their honesty in informing us of the issue. They were very up front about their concerns and didn't try to pass it off as a success without confirmation like some other recent launches **cough** virgin orbit **cough**
@Wayoutthere
Жыл бұрын
I wont even watch those guys, utterly boring.
@doobtom271
Жыл бұрын
Honesty got nothing to do with Jap. Try drink up the nuclear leaks then we can talk.
@radicalrick9587
Жыл бұрын
*cough* *_don't forget, Blue Origin did the same thing, their little ship came crashing down hard and kicks up a huge dust ball, and they tried to pass it off by saying the rockets fired to slow it down._** Videos clearly showed it crashed down onto the earth hard.*
telemetry is magnificent
@philipkeeler9997
Жыл бұрын
Was... sorry.
JAXA will learn from this and be even more successful. JAXA was the first space program who had successfully recovered materials from an asteroid. This is just a setback for even greater achievements. Greeting my friends 🇯🇵❤️🇹🇷
Failure is part of success. Onward and upward.
@tsumplay3094
Жыл бұрын
made in japan
@DrFumiya
Жыл бұрын
@@tsumplay3094 At least it's better than Made in China 😂 China has a lot of failed launches which killed many people. Look it up 🤡 Go back to your daddy Xi Jing Ping 🤣 EDIT: Also at least we have a safer launch because we think about safety but China doesn't 😂
@DrFumiya
Жыл бұрын
@@tsumplay3094 Not to mention a lot of innocent people on the ground.
@DrFumiya
Жыл бұрын
@@tsumplay3094 If anyone does not believe me just look it up. All it take is a simple Google search 😂
@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu
Жыл бұрын
Japan continues to fail in its spacecraft launch in April 2023
this must have been incredbily heartbreaking. I hope japan continues forward :(
@linshitaolst4936
Жыл бұрын
Failure is not terrible. What is really terrible is that you still believe this sentence
@Hamdad
Жыл бұрын
Not to worry, nobody in the world is more driven.
@FrostTcg
Жыл бұрын
They'll get it next time. Nearly everything they touch gets way better 😆
@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu
Жыл бұрын
@@FrostTcg What? So why did they continue to fail the spacecraft launch in April 2023?
Great visualizations JAXA! almost nailed it. Next time. Space is hard.
This is a minor setback as the engineers will learn from it and the next launch will be a success. Best of luck to Japan and it's very bright engineers.
The first stage flight looked so perfect!
Got some good data and it seems first stage was a success but stage 2 failure. Small issue but I was surprised how poor some of the camera work was on launch.
@koko4620
Жыл бұрын
Thought the same thing!! We live in an age of computer operated object-tracking cameras, kind of expected that level of stability
@tillschlothauer5377
Жыл бұрын
I guess it just wasn't their main point of focus on an inaugural launch.
@dagger4146
Жыл бұрын
The first stage went completely out of control shortly after the solid rocket booster separation. You can see it tumbling, there is no recovering from that.
@tillschlothauer5377
Жыл бұрын
@Dagger41 I don't think that is the case. They have this crazy dogleg manouver in their flight plan and Speed increases steadily. The telemetry is not just some expected numbers but live tracking data so we can trust it. Everything according to plan, including the coast time, except 2nd engine ignition.
@dagger4146
Жыл бұрын
@@tillschlothauer5377 That was long before the dogleg maneuver was to be initiated. Notice how the clock vanishes as soon as the booster starts to tumble ? Then the CGI telemetry is introduced like all is normal, EXCEPT the 'dogleg' maneuver was not shown. Japan is not the first to mask a bad launch. India, China and Russia do the same thing. India had their Lunar lander touching down on the Moon while it in fact tried to blast through to the other side. LOL
Stay in the game, consider this loss as a lesson to learn from.... without failure there is no success. You'll be amazed at what you have learned from this minor set back when you launch the next one. Keep up the good work, and be proud.
It's a shame they didn't stay with the telemetry screen until loss of signal. I really appreciated the way the location was displayed - especially the fact it used real data (and showed the predicted path separately). Another nice software touch was the way the timeline display handled events being delayed (with the expected event sliding along) - really neat!
Launch frequency is the key to quickly working out the flaws in any new launch system. Japan needs to figure out what they think may have caused the failure and be ready to launch again within the next three months. Keep doing that until you get it right.
That was an intricate launch trajectory, just hope JAXA continue learning fron failure which is only a sign that you are trying to do something and is part of the path tu success.
So sorry for your loss. You will learn from this and it will be better next time.
Stuff happens, Vega C also had a problem with the second stage some months ago. Good luck to Jaxa!
So sorry for what happened. you will do better next time and it will be a success. GO JAPAN !
@doobtom271
Жыл бұрын
just.like how they leak nuclear water into the ocean! GO JAPAN
@jxxxxx44
Жыл бұрын
@@doobtom271 感谢你们保卫了我们光荣的中国。 五十美分已存入您的银行帐户。 我们将期待未来的合作。 中国共产党光荣!!
@jxxxxx44
Жыл бұрын
@@doobtom271 우리의 영광스러운 자동차를 지켜주셔서 감사합니다. ₩500,000원이 귀하의 은행 계좌에 입금되었습니다. 도와 주셔서 감사합니다. 현대에 영광을.
Nothing worthwhile is ever easy, I'm sure they will lock down the problem and fix it before the next flight. Great video, looking forward to watching more in the future.
I would have to learn more about their mission scope and intent. Hopefully they are able to gain valuable data to become sucessful in the near future. Welcome to the new age of space exploration!
Great attention to detail was employed to make the device more authentically PHALLIC in design and appearance.
Nothing but respect to you guys.....Rocket science is the hardest thing to get right and it has to be perfect..and good on you guys for not trying to hide a failure like uuuuhhh some countries do....we all fail at first....thats how humans learn...
A lot was learned for the next mission. Good luck!
These launches are so complex. Launches always carry a risk, but it amazes me how successful the space program is as a whole, and much will be learned from this late-stage failure to make future launches even safer.
@stj2381
Жыл бұрын
It's complex for small japs 🧠 😁
@armuk
Жыл бұрын
its rocket science, after all
@Triggernlfrl
Жыл бұрын
Primitive obsolete tech is hard to control....
@tsumplay3094
Жыл бұрын
made in japan
@chaostar88
Жыл бұрын
successful the space program? lol... this is a firework...
With love and respect. Thank you for sharing
It looked like a second stage failure from the camera shots.
@philipkeeler9997
Жыл бұрын
correct, 2nd stage failed to light
@imho2278
Жыл бұрын
As they said...
@sed6
Жыл бұрын
The ignitor fell out...
@quickmcglick
Жыл бұрын
@@imho2278 had to watch with volume off
As a former JPL employee (and a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer), I know how difficult complex missions are to achieve success. I also know that from many visits over decades (military visits, work and vacation) that the Japanese will identify what went wrong and zero in on success in their next H3 launch. A hand salute to JAXA from me in the Pacific Northwest! 👍
@MikeAnnarose
Жыл бұрын
What did you do at JPL?
Camera guy had one job...
Sorry to hear the news. It’s one heck of a learning curve, onward and upward …
Minor error that can be fixed with the relayed telemetry. Awesome broadcast! ty
First stage (core & SRBs) seemed perfect; looks like second stage ignition was the issue. DON'T GIVE UP! Figure out the issue with the second stage, and try try again! Space is hard! Rocket(ing?) is HARD! Again, first stage looked great though, so halfway there. New vehicle, growing pains. Good luck JAXA!
Sad to see it fail, but damn that's an interesting launch profile. Can't say I've seen something this kerbal yet.
Don’t waste money on the rocket anymore but focus on the radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Incredible job best of luck going forward. 👍
@stj2381
Жыл бұрын
Yes true. That was a beautiful explosion, pls do more on next launch 🙏
@AV036
Жыл бұрын
@@stj2381 I'm sorry what? can you please post the time mark of the "explosion" all I heard was 11:36
Thank you for showing the launch. Best luck next time!
Much respect to the Japanese people so humble and polite!
We learn more from investigations than from successful launches. This is valuable for the entire industry. And frankly, it is more interesting than repeated successes. I wonder what destruct means, change trajectory to earth intact? Further separation? Or are there actually explosives to make it return in smaller, less dangerous pieces?
@josephn944
Жыл бұрын
Flight termination system (“FTS”) blows it to bits. Because it was probably too slow to burn up (it was less than half of orbital velocity), you want the rocket to be in as many small pieces as possible when it reaches the surface because it poses less hazard than one giant second stage. Never a good time when it is used. I think it’s not always standard to see a second stage be deliberately detonated (ie: see Astra and Firefly second stage failures, I think they just fell back to earth, but were also moving significantly faster) but JAXA certainly worked this scenario out beforehand in case it happened, so there’s a reason for doing it. To answer your question, it’s a physical explosive charge located on the side of the rocket body.
@LangeLijs
Жыл бұрын
@@josephn944 But the rocket was already at 500+ km. So there's a possibility that all the small debris will hit satellites in orbit?
@jerryshobbies8224
Жыл бұрын
@LaCarteInternet for orbit, you need speed more than altitude. First stage gets it above the atmosphere, but it is still too slow to orbit. Second stage adds speed to get to orbital velocity. Second stage did not light, so no orbit, the rocket will fall back down. Edit- speed at MOCO was around 3.6km/s. 500km orbit needs around 7.6km/s
@LangeLijs
Жыл бұрын
@@jerryshobbies8224 I know how orbital mechanics work. It doesn’t change the fact that the rocket pieces are at 500km and drop back to earth with possibly other objects in their way
@KartmanPCR
Жыл бұрын
Pieces landing in the Pacific Ocean I believe.
The fail is the mother of success. Keep up the good work Japan, and continue the works. Don't give up.
Good attempt, and really makes you really appreciate the difficulty of rocket launches. SpaceX makes it look like just another day in the office.
Japan will do it, it takes time and failures are NOT always bad from what we have learned from SpaceX, Jaxa will figure it out and learn from it and improve on the next launch!
Go Japan! Only up from here!
@lmfzmf
Жыл бұрын
Yep, next launch will fail at stage 3. Mark my words!
@Delta-V-Heavy
Жыл бұрын
@@lmfzmf Don't think there is a stage 3 on this rocket... unless you count core + boosters as one stage and core alone as second stage, as Russia typically does... but in that case, it would have actually been the third stage that failed this time.
someone in the comments I was watching said it would fail in the 2nd stage. Crazy. Sad.
@philipkeeler9997
Жыл бұрын
['Crazy, Sad,']....... but true.
Condolences to Japan space program. We all hope your next launch will be successful. It looked awesome from the ignition on as far as we could see
The most technically advanced country ever known to man, and they can’t keep the camera steady.
This is always heartbreaking, but it makes you appreciate the amazing successes. Hopefully they'll figure out the problem quickly and get right back out there again.
Way to go Japan. It's only a test, failures are expected. Just get the data and build it better.
@space_guy_04
Жыл бұрын
They launched an untested rocket with payload already? I don’t think this is a right way of doing things.
@lettuceturnipthebeets790
Жыл бұрын
@@space_guy_04 well, it's also a good bet, because if they did succeed, they'd get testing data AS WELL AS more funding
@space_guy_04
Жыл бұрын
@@lettuceturnipthebeets790 well considering the price tag of the payload, it isn’t cheap. The payload probably cost more than the rocket itself.
That’s some amazing camera work.
Condolences.
This is the level of Japan.
I have been curious on other launches what would happen if the second stage failed to ignite. This shows that, and I feel Japan will eventually get it right every time.
@rocksnot952
Жыл бұрын
They have to save face. That takes time.
@armuk
Жыл бұрын
what else will happen? it will fall out of the sky. hence the decision to destruct it
@KittenBowl1
Жыл бұрын
@@rocksnot952 lol nothing about saving face. And I’m Japanese. 😂 You know we ain’t Chinese right? We aren’t that old fashion.
@UV-NIR-Thermal
Жыл бұрын
@@armuk Obviously, I mean watching the trajectory and seeing how far the payload travels still gaining speed, and when the speed starts to decline.
I’m sure it will be successful next time, endeavor to persevere!
Noble effort you will succeed
Failures are part of all human endeavours and efforts and this should not be allowed to dishearten the people who wants to succeed. There is always next time and success will come rolling in. Good work done by Japanese scientist and technicians. Keep it up.
This is one of the tests God gave to the team of JAXA.
@Swizzenator
Жыл бұрын
Im sure they could do without his so called gifts.
With every roadblock, there is always a way around. Best wishes on the next rocket launch Nippon 🍻
Darn, that is very unfortunate. I hope this can be used for eventual benefit and help to have a successful launch next time.
Maybe japanese can ask north korea how to launching a rocket
Don't forget that SpaceX failed 3 times before achieving orbit with the Falcon 1. Nailing the first test flight is kind of rare because space is hard.
@kiabtoomlauj6249
Жыл бұрын
There was a short documentary on Musk talking about him about to go bankrupt... with Tesla piling up in the warehouse --- not selling due to some issues --- and all his first rockets blowing up.... with that last one being the last hope he had left. If it failed, too, he said it was close to certainty he/his company would go bankrupt... because all of his $1.5B from the sale of PayPal was invested in Tesla and there's no cash left, with no major bank willing to work with him, as a still yet to be proven in either automotive or rocketry; but if it's successful, he said... that he'd likely get a contract from NASA, saving both his SpaceX and Tesla business. The rest was history. But he came closer to disaster than anyone realized
Keep trying is always respectable. Love from 🇨🇳
did great job jaxa 👍
I hope you can find a quick answer to what went wrong and that it requires a simple fix. Thanks for the English translation!!! The launch site is very beautiful.
Cutest itty bitty SRBs ive ever seen.
very unfortunate. I hope you can find and resolve the issue at hand.
Just after srb separation it looks like it began to spin out of control, but then the Cgi stuff shows it climbing
Like the Japanese economy that is now collapsing, the rocket will also self-destruc🤣🤣
Fun facts: 2022 was a record year for space with 180 successful rocket launches to orbit - the most ever, and 44 more than in 2021. The launches were dominated by rockets from US company SpaceX and from the Chinese government and businesses. US 76 ( SpaceX 61) China 62 Russia 21 Zew Zealand 9 Europe 5 Others 7
@dgodrummer8110
Жыл бұрын
good, I hope Elon got a few more satellites up for star link, it sucks ass in my area. and Elon just raised the rates on the "poor coverage" areas like mine. so now I pay more for internet that cuts out once a minute or more and isn't getting better. haha.
The graphic at 3:52 mission elapsed time is most impressive , I would love to see SpaceX try and do something similar. JAXA, is going to learn from this and do the same crawl, walk, run approach that SpaceX has found to be so successful.
@yourface3154
Жыл бұрын
SpaceX does...
@vam333
Жыл бұрын
So does ISRO. Infact ISRO gives the most detailed data of the launches including azimuth angles
I'm surprised they sent the self destruct signal without first testing the satellite separation equipment.
@littlelostchild6767
Жыл бұрын
Target elevation not reached, if the seperate the satellite surely it will just re entry the earth..
Condolences on a less than totally successful mission but congratulations on a professional and successful launch and it appears the first stage performed close to nominal. Space is hard an hopefully JAXA obtained much needed data and will be able to ascertain failure modes and apply lessons learned for a more successful series of launches in the future. Best luck!
Like Space X you will succeed from your failures and become the best .
Gratitude for the English narration.
Super unfortunate. Hoping for a brighter future!
They really got to take a page from SpaceX and put cameras on these things.
Can you say...KABOOM?
So sorry about that
Amazing progress! Congratulations for a successful launch, and my condolences and support for the failed mission. A great moment in history to have the Japanese join in creating and launching their own space vehicles.
@bonfiresgt
Жыл бұрын
They have been launching satellites into orbit since the year 1970, so yes they did join the space club over half a century ago.
I have no doubt that they will work it out.
fascinating how the launch profile does like a 90° turn
@epheros9660
Жыл бұрын
It was surprising how that wasn't the problem honestly. I was constantly confused how they kept calling it nominal after seeing it swerve like that.
That girl is cute
Failure becomes before success! Best of luck to the engineers and everyone working on this project.
Respect to Japan!!!!!!
at least someone filmed it with a hand held 2008 DV cam
This shows what rocket science really is. It’s not easy peasy what NASA and CNSA have achieved, anything can go wrong so easily. Even Japan and India have to face so many fails.
The cameraman needs to be fired
@Florentina16ful
Жыл бұрын
was horrible right? he had one job!
@yourmommashouse
Жыл бұрын
Try following a bird in flight, now imagine how much farther the rocket is, it’s extremely difficult to do manually
@johnnylee9116
Жыл бұрын
Idk but when I saw the camera work I saw this 😂
@clubfro
Жыл бұрын
based
@evrydayamerican
Жыл бұрын
It's pretty hard to keep those rockets in camera. SpaceX and NASA use a computer controlled rig to follow the rocket. I bet they had a human trying to follow the rocket 🚀
Good launch. But saddly not everything goes as plan.
Keep at it everyone - RESPECT!