CAS Space Kinetica-1 rocket fails
Video from the channel All About Space about Kinetica 1, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 8:52. Language: English. Video type: News.
What is announced
Space news bulletin opening with the failure of CAS Space's Kinetica-1 launcher on 27 December 2024 from the Jiuquan launch center in China. About 3 seconds after its ignition, the third stage lost attitude control and automatic self-destruction was triggered. 11 satellites were lost.
Context
The program, covering two weeks of news, also reviews Blue Origin's 24-second New Glenn static fire, Starbase's preparations for Starship's test flight 7, and the period's launches: several Falcon 9s, an ISRO PSLV to test in-orbit docking, and a Long March 3B. It closes with the 2024 roundup — 261 successful launches (66 of them Chinese) — and a Mars panorama taken by the Curiosity rover.
What it implies
CAS Space is focusing its efforts on clarifying the cause of the failure and has confirmed to its customers that it still intends to launch eight rockets in 2025.