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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit HANBIT Pad Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil

Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 23, 2025, 1:22 a.m.

Launch failure.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 23, 2025, 1:13 a.m.

Liftoff.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 23, 2025, 12:50 a.m.

New T-0.


LL2 • Dec. 23, 2025, midnight

Official Webcast by INNOSPACE ꞁ 이노스페이스 has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 22, 2025, 4 p.m.

Delayed to NET 01:00 UTC due to launch site weather.


HANBIT-Nano

Family:
Configuration: Nano

Two-stage launch vehicle developed by South Korean space startup Innospace.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    21.8 m
  • Diameter
    1.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    18.8 T
  • Thrust
    245.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    HANBIT-Nano
  • Family
  • Variant
    Nano
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    HANBIT-Nano
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    90.0 kg

Innospace

Innospace

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CEO: Kim Soo-jong Founded: 2017 Successes: 1 Failures: 1 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Innospace is a South Korean startup company specializing in developing hybrid space rocket.

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