Also over the weekend, Chinese company iSpace launched their fourth Hyperbola-1 rocket. Like the last three launch attempts, this one also ended in failure. No official reason for the failure was disclosed. State media outlet Xinhua only said that the “launch mission was abnormal”. Onboard was another Jilin-1 series satellite, to replace the one lost in the last Hyperbola-1 launch failure. The Hyperbola-1 rocket has worked once, but that was a smaller, less capable version of the rocket. All three attempts to launch the larger version have failed.

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Launch of China’s commercial carrier rocket fails (Xinhua)