Fire broke out near the launch pad at the bottom of the H2B rocket and was extinguished
A fire broke out near the launch pad at the bottom of an H2B rocket, and firefighters fought to extinguish it at around 3:05 a.m. on September 11 near the launch pad at the bottom of the H2B-8 large rocket, which was being prepared for launch at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. The fire was out of sight after about two hours, but Mitsubishi Heavy Industries canceled the launch scheduled for 6:33 a.m. Photo taken on September 11, 2019. The evening edition of the same day, "H2B Launch Aborted: Fire Near Launch Pad of KOUNOTORI" was published.
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