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カイロスロケット2号機見えるかな?串本町内より配信

2024.12.18 11:00(JST)に予定されているカイロスロケット2号機の打上げを串本町内からライブ配信する予定です。 ※現地の人出によっては電波の輻輳で配信ができない可能性があります。 このチャンネルのメンバーになって特典にアクセスしてください: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkGOo9VQFjijIDZJidoNmg/join

Flight 2

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Space One Launch Pad Spaceport Kii, Japan

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

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 15, 2024, 1:36 a.m.

Scrubbed for the day.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 16, 2024, 4:22 a.m.

Rescheduled for December 18.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 8, 2024, 11:39 a.m.

NET December 14.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 9, 2024, 7:30 a.m.

Adding launch window.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 18, 2024, 2 a.m.

Liftoff.


KAIROS

Family:
Configuration:

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.

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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

Space One

(Space One)

Founded: 2018 Successes: 0 Failures: 2 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

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

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