Interstellar Glory's Hyperbola-1 Y8 Rocket Launch Ends in Failure

TapTechNews July 11th news, at 7:40 am Beijing time today, the Hyperbola-1 Y8 launch vehicle of Interstellar Glory carried 3 Yunyao-1 meteorological satellites and lifted off at the 95A launch pad of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

This is the first launch of the Hyperbola-1 rocket in 2024. Originally, it was planned to send the satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit, but unfortunately, an abnormality occurred during the flight of the rocket, and the flight mission failed to be successfully completed.

At noon today, Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. released a statement. At 7:40 am on July 11, 2024, Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. carried out the flight test mission of the Hyperbola-1 Y8 launch vehicle at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. The first, second, and third stages of the rocket flew normally, and the fourth stage had an abnormal operation, and the launch mission failed. The specific reason will be announced as soon as possible after detailed investigation and review.

Interstellar Glory officials said: Here, with an extremely sincere heart, we express the deepest apologies to friends from all walks of life who have been paying attention and strongly supporting Interstellar Glory. We deeply know that everyone's expectations and trust are of great significance to us. We have taken swift actions and started the zeroing work with a rigorous, cautious, and meticulous attitude to ensure a comprehensive and in-depth analysis and solution to the problem, laying a solid foundation for the successful completion of future tasks.

TapTechNews learned from relevant information that the Hyperbola-1 rocket is a commercial launch vehicle developed by Beijing Interstellar Glory Technology Co., Ltd., a private aerospace company in China, which adopts a four-stage series configuration with three solids and one liquid, and is launched by vertical hot launch.

The length of this type of rocket is about 24 feet (about 7.3 meters), the average diameter is 1.4 meters, the mass is about 42 tons, and the takeoff thrust is 770 kilonewtons, which can launch some satellites and other payloads to the sun-synchronous orbit 500 kilometers or 700 kilometers from the ground.