"Red bean paste~ Personal Marseilles!"
Under the blue backdrop of the JAXA press room, Sakai Shinichiro along with a group of R&D staff from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, bowed in unison, making the camera only able to capture the tops of their heads and the linings of their clothes.
Five hours earlier, the launch pad prepared for the H-2B launch suddenly caught fire, the flames simply could not be extinguished, burning for over two hours, and the components of the burning material were complex, with the thick black smoke spreading spectacularly.
At that time, the H-2B rocket had already been fully fueled, and the launch center was all set for the possibility of an explosion at any moment, fortunately, although the fire was intense, due to the wind direction and rocket's position, apart from smoking up the rocket body a bit, no explosion occurred.