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  • Well, This Japanese Private Rocket Launch Certainly Could Have Gone Better

    Well, This Japanese Private Rocket Launch Certainly Could Have Gone Better

    Saturday’s test of the MOMO-2 unmanned rocket, which was scheduled to be the first privately funded Japanese rocket to reach space, went very poorly for Interstellar Technologies’ Takafumi Horie, a convicted securities fraudster who a 2014 Financial Times profile dubbed “Japan’s enfant terrible”. Footage of the event showed the one-and-a-quarter-ton rocket disastrously failing mere seconds…