[AR] Re: JAXA SS-520 to orbit with a picosat

  • From: Nathan Bergey <nathan.bergey@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:45:53 -0700

This is very exciting!

At 9.54 m tall and 2.6 t mass, it would be by far the smallest orbital
vehicle launched, beating the (also Japanese) Lambda-4S (1970, 16.47
m, 9.4 t).

Good luck!


-Nathan

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Kaido Kert <kaidokert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JAXA plans to fly this to orbit in experimental configuration, on January
11, 2017

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/ss-520.htm
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2016/12/20161208_ss-520-4_j.html

Certainly small for an orbital rocket, if it makes it.

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