Epsilon | RAISE-3 & others

Epsilon | RAISE-3 & others

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Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.

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RAISE-3 & others

RAISE-3 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) was a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite was to be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. The launch is also carrying QPS-SAR 3 & 4 radar Earth observation satellites for iQPS, and 5 cubesats for various Japanese institutions & companies.

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Epsilon


Height 24.40 Meters

Max Stages 4

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 2271 kN

Diameter 2.50 Meters

Mass To LEO 0 kg

Liftoff Mass 91 Tonnes


Launch Success 5

Consecutive Success 5

Maiden Flight 2013-09-14

Launch Failures 1


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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-12T01:46:05+0000

Launch failure

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-12T00:51:16+0000

Liftoff

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-12T00:28:23+0000

Webcast live

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-09T06:33:29+0000

Launch rescheduled to October 12

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-05T04:33:20+0000

Launch delayed due to unspecified problem with the launch vehicle; new date TBD

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-08-08T03:26:18+0000

Added launch date and time

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-06-11T18:30:36+0000

Added launch under preparations right now

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