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2024.03.13 スペースワン カイロスロケット打上げ 光学観測 Space One Kairos rocket launch optical observation

2024.03.13 11:01'12"に予定されているカイロスロケットの打上げをプレスセンターのある那智勝浦から撮影に挑戦します。

Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Space One Launch Pad Spaceport Kii, Japan

Carried a prototype "quick response" satellite for the Japanese government Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, operator of the IGS series of Japanese spysats.

Updates

SwGustav • March 13, 2024, 2:03 a.m.

Launch vehicle exploded shortly after liftoff, details TBD


LL2 • March 13, 2024, 1:21 a.m.

Livestream has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 11, 2024, 9:21 a.m.

New attempt on March 13 officially confirmed.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 9, 2024, 5:14 a.m.

Delayed to NET March 13.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 9, 2024, 2:22 a.m.

Scrubbed for the day.


KAIROS

Family:
Configuration:

4-stage all solid fuel small satellite launch vehicle from the Japanese company Space One, founded in 2018 by Canon Electronics, IHI Aerospace, construction company Shimizu and the government-backed Development Bank of Japan.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    18.0 m
  • Diameter
    1.35 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.5 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    KAIROS
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $9000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    250.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    150.0 kg

Space One

Space One

(Space One)

Founded: 2018 Successes: 0 Failures: 3 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

Space One is a private launch service provider founded in 2018 by Canon Electronics, IHI Aerospace, construction company Shimizu and the government-backed Development Bank of Japan. Their KAIROS launch vehicle is planned for use to launch small satellites

INFO
Space Scout

Space One’s Kairos Explodes on Maiden Flight

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The National

First Kairos rocket explodes seconds after liftoff

The first flight of privately developed Japanese rocket ended in a catastrophic failure seconds after liftoff March 12.

NASASpaceflight

Japan’s first commercial launch explodes shortly into flight on second attempt

Space One had been planning Japan’s first private-sector orbital launch with the debut of its small satellite launcher — this was also to be the maiden flight from a new, dedicated, launch facility.

Spaceport Kii, Japan

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