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Interstellar TechnologiesLaunch FailureSuborbitalMOMO
Launched 2019-07-27 07:20 UTCLaunch Complex 0, Hokkaido Spaceport, Japan
Launch anomaly
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Launch failure
Target: Suborbital
MOMO v0 lifted off with Flight 4, but the launch failed.
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No cause has been given yet. What Interstellar Technologies finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
The Momo-4 rocket will carry a research device developed by Kochi University of Technology and release a paper plane in space as part of an experiment proposed by Castem Co., a precision parts manufacturer based in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, that provided some of the funding for the project.
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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