Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1

Test Flight

Time to liftoff

Date unconfirmed

Target Window

Unconfirmed

Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Quarter 3

— Mission

T1H-1

Suborbital· Sub

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

— Rocket

Vehicle

Themis Demonstrator

Themis is an ESA rocket prototype – a flagship European demonstrator for low-cost rocket recovery and reuse technologies. Powered by the reusable, methane-fuelled engine Prometheus, it is developed with ArianeGroup as prime contractor and building on decades of European research and experience in rocketry and space operations, Themis is designed to launch, land vertically and live on for another mission.

Length: 28 m
Diameter: 3.5 m
Launch Mass: 170 t

Launches

Success

Failures

— Launch Pad

Launch Complex 3B

Esrange Space Center · Sweden

— Launch Provider

Multinational

European Space Agency

Est. 1975 · Director General: Josef Aschbacher

The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.

Total

Success

Pending