Launch pad fire scuttles cargo mission to ISS with H-2B rocket(1/3)

Firefighters tackle a blaze at the rocket launch pad of Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in the early hours of Sept. 11, 2019. The fire prompted the cancellation of the launch of an H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned Kounotori8 spacecraft, scheduled to fly to the International Space Station. (Photo/IC)

Atsutoshi Tamura (L), vice chief of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s space operations, speaks at a press conference at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2019, after a fire prompted the cancellation of the launch of an H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned Kounotori8 spacecraft, which had been scheduled to fly to the International Space Station. (Photo/IC)

Onlookers view an H-2B rocket at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2019, after a fire prompted the cancellation of its launch. It had been due to carry the International Space Station-bound, unmanned, Kounotori8 spacecraft. (Photo/IC)