Innospace says its HANBIT‑Nano inaugural launch in December failed when exhaust leaked from a combustion chamber and caused the rocket to break up. The South Korean startup attributes the vehicle breakup specifically to a combustion‑chamber exhaust leak identified after the flight.
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Confirms a technical root cause for HANBIT‑Nano's December loss — a combustion‑chamber exhaust leak that led to vehicle breakup and destruction of payloads ([source:61860088-1b91-4a72-a61e-083408bec0ee]).
Reinforces maturity and reliability challenges facing new small‑launcher developers worldwide, a pattern visible in recent regional setbacks such as Space One's Kairos failure and Japan's H3 anomaly ([source:bdf71586-7411-43c6-9850-b8a352fa1a89], [source:fc3106f4-6663-45b3-9f30-66c59ff75a26]).
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