SS-520

Built & Operated By
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Government · founded 2003
Family
S-Series
variant 4
Maiden Flight
14 JAN 2017
About
The fourth configuration of SS-520. It would have been the smallest and lightest vehicle to put something into orbit, but it lost telemetry and was told to abort, falling into the ocean.
Vehicle Specifications
Height
9.7 m
Diameter
0.5 m
Launch Mass
3 T
Stages
3
Configuration
Expendable
Launch Record
Total Launches
1
Successful
0
Failed
1
Performance
To LEO
4 kg
Apogee
1,000 km