ZERO | Maiden Flight

Test Flight

Time to liftoff

Targeting 2027

Target Window

2027

Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Year

— Mission

Maiden Flight

Low Earth Orbit· LEO

First test flight of ZERO, the first orbital rocket developed by Japanese private company Interstellar Technologies.

— Rocket

Vehicle

ZERO

Microsatellite Launch Vehicle developed by Japanese private company Interstellar Technologies.

Length: 32 m
Diameter: 2.3 m
Launch Mass: 71 t
LEO Capacity: 800 kg

Launches

Success

Failures

— Launch Pad

Launch Complex 1

Hokkaido Spaceport

Latitude

— Launch Provider

Commercial

Interstellar Technologies

Est. 2005 · President: Takahiro Inagawa

Interstellar Technologies, Inc. (Japanese: インターステラテクノロジズ（株） Hepburn: Intāsutera Tekunorojizu (kabu)) is a Japanese NewSpace company. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO launcher. Its stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space. In 2017, it became the first Japanese company to launch a privately developed space rocket, though the launch was unsuccessful. The company plans to complete a rocket by 2020 that would be capable of launching small satellites into orbit.

Total

Success

Pending