イプシロン6号機、ロケットの異常により打ち上げに失敗。

Epsilon 6 failed to launch due to a rocket anomaly.

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 The Japan’s Epsilon 6 rocket was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center on the morning of January 12, but the launch failed due to an anomaly with the rocket. Seven minutes after liftoff, the rocket was destroyed and fell into the sea east of the Philippines. JAXA said, “Due to an anomaly in the rocket’s posture, we determined that we could not inject the rocket into its scheduled orbit”. This was the first failure for Epsilon, which had succeeded in five consecutive launches since its first launch. It is also the first time that a JAXA rocket has failed to launch since the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 6 in 2003. Yasuhiro Funo of JAXA, who was in charge of the launch this time, said, “We determined that the rocket could not be put into the prescribed orbit because of a posture abnormality, so we issued a command and destroyed it. We recognize that it is first of all an urgent task to investigate the cause at an early stage and establish countermeasures”.

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The Japan’s Epsilon 6 rocket was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center on the morning of January 12, but the launch failed due to an anomaly with the rocket. 

Seven minutes after liftoff, the rocket was destroyed and fell into the sea east of the Philippines. 

JAXA said, “Due to an anomaly in the rocket’s posture, we determined that we could not inject the rocket into its scheduled orbit”. 

This was the first failure for Epsilon, which had succeeded in five consecutive launches since its first launch. 

It is also the first time that a JAXA rocket has failed to launch since the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 6 in 2003. 

Yasuhiro Funo of JAXA, who was in charge of the launch this time, said, “We determined that the rocket could not be put into the prescribed orbit because of a posture abnormality, so we issued a command and destroyed it. We recognize that it is first of all an urgent task to investigate the cause at an early stage and establish countermeasures”.

瞬間英作文に挑戦！

日本のイプシロン6号機は12日朝、内之浦宇宙空間観測所から打ち上げられたが、ロケットの異常で打ち上げに失敗した。

発射から7分後にロケットは破壊され、フィリピン東方の海上に落下した。

JAXAは「ロケットの姿勢に異常があり、予定の軌道に投入できないと判断した」としている。

初号機から5回連続で打ち上げに成功していたイプシロンにとって、初の失敗となった。

また、JAXAのロケットが打ち上げに失敗したのは、2003年のH2Aロケット6号機以来となる。

今回打ち上げを担当したJAXAの布野泰裕氏は、「姿勢の異常があるということで所定の軌道に入れられないと判断して、指令を出し破壊した。早期に原因究明をし、対策を立てることがまずは急務だと認識している」と語った。

参考
日本のロケット「イプシロン」打ち上げ失敗 地上から破壊指令 / NHK（https://www.nhk.or.jp/）
イプシロン６号機　打ち上げ失敗「正常に飛行できない」として破壊信号 / MBC南日本放送（https://www.mbc.co.jp/）