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2021年7月31日(土)16時〜 「TENGAロケット」打上げ中継 インターステラテクノロジズ

■日時:2021年7月31日(土)16:00〜18:20■打上げウインドウ:打上げ予定日時 :2021年7月31日(土)17:00打上げ可能時間帯:17:00~17:50(日本標準時) ※予備日 8月1日(日)ウインドウ:4:15〜7:50、11:00~12:20、16:05~17:50打上げ場所 : 北海道スペ...

Flight 6

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Suborbital

Suborbital Launch Complex 0 Hokkaido Spaceport, Japan

Despite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.

Updates

Nosu • July 31, 2021, 8:18 a.m.

Successful launch.


Nosu • July 31, 2021, 8 a.m.

Liftoff


scottm3 • July 30, 2021, 6:09 a.m.

Flight delayed to evening launch window.


spacevogel • July 24, 2021, 10:52 a.m.

Added launch.


MOMO v1

Family:
Configuration: v1

Momo is a Japanese sounding rocket capable of delivering 20 kg to a height of 100 km. It is privately developed by Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST). The v1 upgrade includes a higher thrust engine with a silica fiber reinforced plastic nozzle, as well as increased mass and length.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    10.1 m
  • Diameter
    0.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    1.0 T
  • Thrust
    14.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    MOMO v1
  • Family
  • Variant
    v1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    MOMO v1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

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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