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Space One (Space One)

March 13, 2024

Description

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.

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

Commercial
None
Space One 2018

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

Previous Flights

flew on three previous launch(es).

KAIROS | Flight 3

Space One | Japan
Spaceport Kii, Japan
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Third flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites will be on board: * TATARA-1R * SC-Sat1a * HErO * AETS-1 * Nutsat-3 (TASA/Taiwan)

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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KAIROS | Flight 2

Space One | Japan
Spaceport Kii, Japan
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Second flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1 * ISHIKI

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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KAIROS | Maiden Flight

Space One | Japan
Spaceport Kii, Japan
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

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

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Recent Launches
Long March 2D
Success
3 hours, 59 minutes ago
PIESAT-2 13-16
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.

Electron
Success
11 hours, 27 minutes ago
Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 day, 21 hours ago
Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Satellite serial number and Cosmos designation not confirmed. Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite n…

Kuaizhou 11
Success
2 days, 12 hours ago
SpaceTY-51 & 52
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.

Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 13 hours ago
USSF-259
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

USSF-259 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield …

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