LAUNCHER INFO

Callisto is a demonstrator designed to conduct flight testing and mature the complex technologies required to return a launcher to Earth, as well as refurbishment operations between flights, and to precisely cost an operational European launcher with a reusable first stage (it is not intended to become an operational launcher). Standing for “Cooperative Action Leading to Launcher Innovation in Stage Toss-back Operations”, Callisto is a project being pursued with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the German space agency DLR. A large number of international contractors are also contributing to the experiment, among them ArianeGroup and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

MANUFACTURER INFO

National Center of Space Research

LAUNCHER SPECIFICATIONS

(reusable)

true

(length)

13 m

(diameter)

1.1 m

TO LEO

null kg

TO GTO

null kg

LAUNCH STATISTICS