According to preliminary investigations by concerned parties, the cause of the failure was that the satellite's apogee engine was unable to normally operate because of a breakdown in the fuel valve.

Some of the reasons are the same as those that beset all businesses: lack of experience, poor location, too much competition, poor merchandising.

If instead we regard the financing of warfare by taxation in this period as a background condition, then we will see the English reverse themselves as the main cause of the revolt.