Failed six and a half minutes after liftoff from Uchinoura when second-stage attitude-control thrusters malfunctioned, prompting a range-safety self-destruct command. Destroyed JAXA's RAISE-3 tech demonstrator and seven other satellites; Epsilon's first failure since its 2013 debut.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Epsilon flights
- Date and time
- 12 October 2022, 00:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Epsilon
- Builder
- IHI
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Technology
- Launches in 2022
- 135th of 186