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Interstellar TechnologiesLaunch SuccessfulSuborbitalMOMO
Launched 2019-05-04 20:45 UTCLaunch Complex 0, Hokkaido Spaceport, Japan
Success
Reached Suborbital
Interstellar Technologies
1st
launch this year
Launch Complex 0
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
309 d
since the pad's previous launch
Flight duration : 515 seconds. Maximum altitude : 113.4 km. Downrange : 37 km from the launch site.
This was the first successful attempt following two consecutive failures for the previous MOMO series, and has provided valuable telemetry data for further development within IST.
Launch Provider
Commercial · Japan · Founded 2005 · President Takahiro Inagawa
Interstellar Technologies, Inc. (Japanese: インターステラテクノロジズ（株） Hepburn: Intāsutera Tekunorojizu (kabu)) is a Japanese NewSpace company. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO launcher. Its stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space. In 2017, it became the first Japanese company to launch a privately developed space rocket, though the launch was unsuccessful. The company plans to complete a rocket by 2020 that would be capable of launching small satellites into orbit.
Launches
7
Successful
3
43%
Upcoming
1
scheduled
Height
9.9m
Diameter
0.5m
Liftoff thrust
12kN
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