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HyImpulse (HYI)

May 3, 2024

Description

Single-stage suborbital sounding rocket developed by German private company HyImpulse. Used to offer commercial microgravity services and as a test bed for the company's SL1 orbital rocket.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
  • Diameter
    0.64 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    0.64 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    75.0 kN
  • Apogee (Sub-Orbital)
    200.0 km
Family
  • Name
    SR75
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SR75
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

HyImpulse

Private
CEO: Mario Kobald
HYI 2018

HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility.

SR75 | Maiden Flight

HyImpulse | Germany
Koonibba Test Range, South Australia
May 3, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test flight of HyImpulse's SR75 sounding rocket

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