
Epsilon S | RAISE-4 & others
Programma
Pad

The Uchinoura Space Center is a space launch facility in the Japanese town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture. All of Japan's scientific satellites were launched from Uchinoura prior to the M-V launch vehicles being decommissioned in 2006. It continues to be used for suborbital launches, stratospheric balloons and has also been used for the Epsilon orbital launch vehicle. Additionally, the center has antennas for communication with interplanetary space probes.
Rocket
![[AUTO] Epsilon - image](https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/epsilon_image_20190207032600.jpeg)
The Epsilon S rocket is a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites. It is a follow-on project to the larger and more expensive M-V rocket which was retired in 2006. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) began developing the Epsilon in 2007. The first stage is based on SRB-3, the strap-on solid-rocket booster of H3
Full Name: Epsilon S
Maiden Flight: 2013-09-14
Total Launch Count: 0
Successful Launches: 0
Failed Launches: 0
Mission
Mission Name: RAISE-4 & others
Type: Technology
Description: RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. 10 of the demonstrations are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022.
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Updates

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2023-12-06T11:12:07ZNET 2025.