JAXA's experimental SS-520-4, a modified sounding rocket meant to become the smallest ever to reach orbit, failed about 20 seconds after liftoff when a telemetry power fault forced controllers to abort second-stage ignition, losing the TRICOM-1 CubeSat.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only SS-520-4 flight