ZERO

In-active

Interstellar Technologies (ISTECH)

None

Description

Microsatellite Launch Vehicle developed by Japanese private company Interstellar Technologies.

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

Commercial

President: Takahiro Inagawa

ISTECH 2005

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.

Upcoming Spaceflights

ZERO | Maiden Flight

Interstellar Technologies | Japan
Hokkaido Spaceport, Japan
TBD December, 2027

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit

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Flight Record

No spaceflights found for .

Recent Launches

Long March 2C/YZ-1S

Success

1 day, 5 hours ago

Shiyan 33

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese satellite reported to be for "space environment research" purposes. Actual usage not known.

Falcon 9

Success

1 day, 10 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-17

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 2D

Success

2 days, 10 hours ago

SuperView Neo 2-05 & 06

Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Commercial Synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites built by CAST for China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd.

Soyuz 2.1b

Success

4 days, 16 hours ago

16 x Rassvet-3

43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Payload identities uncertain. Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) conste…

Smart Dragon 3

Success

5 days, 17 hours ago

10 x CentiSpace-1

Haiyang offshore launch location - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are pa…