The Japanese space agency said its Epsilon-6 rocket carrying eight payloads malfunctioned just after liftoff on Wednesday. The rocket experienced an unidentified “abnormality” and its flight had to be aborted by a self-destruction command less than seven minutes after takeoff from the Uchinoura Space Center.
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