SL1

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HyImpulse (HYI)

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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
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First launch of HyImpulse's SL1 launch vehicle.

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