SL1

Active

HyImpulse (HYI)

None

Description

3-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by German private company HyImpulse, with capability of up to 600 kg to Low Earth Orbit. All 3 stages are powered by hybrid rocket motors using paraffin and liquid oxygen as fuel.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    33.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    SL1
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SL1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    600.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

HyImpulse

Private
CEO: Mario Kobald
HYI 2018

HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility.

Upcoming Spaceflights


SL1 | Demo Flight

HyImpulse | Germany
SaxaVord Spaceport
TBD December, 2027
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First launch of HyImpulse's SL1 launch vehicle.

Low Earth Orbit
Explore Share

Falcon 9
Success
1 day, 18 hours ago
GPS III SV09
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Ninth of ten GPS III missions.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 5 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-20
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


New Shepard
Success
1 week ago
NS-38
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

NS-38 is the 17th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 38th in the New Shepard program's history.


Electron
Success
1 week ago
The Cosmos Will See You Now (Open Cosmos Constellation Launch 1)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

First 2 satellites (named MR-1 and MR-2) of UK-based Open Cosmos' secure LEO broadband constellation designed to provide independent and resilient co…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Starlink Group 17-30
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.