WASHINGTON — South Korean startup Innospace says its inaugural launch failed in December when exhaust leaked from a combustion chamber and caused the rocket to break up.
Innospace announced March 17 that it had completed its investigation into the launch of its first Hanbit-Nano rocket Dec.
The company said it found that, 33 seconds after liftoff, exhaust leaked from the rocket's first-stage combustion chamber, "resulting in a rupture of the combustion chamber and the subsequent separation of the launch vehicle into multiple parts.
