Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 1 Hokkaido Spaceport, Japan

First test flight of ZERO, the first orbital rocket developed by Japanese private company Interstellar Technologies.

Updates


Nosu • Oct. 21, 2024, 9:28 a.m.

NET 2026 per IST representatives at IAC 2024


Nosu • Aug. 16, 2023, 7:46 a.m.

Adding launch NET 2025


ZERO

Family:
Configuration:

Microsatellite Launch Vehicle developed by Japanese private company Interstellar Technologies.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    32.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.3 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.3 m
  • Launch Mass
    71.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    ZERO
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    ZERO
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    250.0 kg

Interstellar Technologies

Interstellar Technologies

(ISTECH)

President: Takahiro Inagawa Founded: 2005 Successes: 3 Failures: 4 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

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.

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