「Sounding Rocket MOMO F3」Flight Experiment Success
May-07-2019
Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Interstellar Technologies Inc. (Memu Taiki Town Hokkaido, JAPAN, CEO: Takahiro Inagawa,
hereinafter referred to as “IST”)
annouces that Flight 3 of the sounding rocket MOMO hassuccessfully launched and achieved the target trajector MOMO,
the third in it’s series of sounding rockets designed and fabricated at IST,
lifted off at 05:45 AM (JST), May-04-2019
from IST’s launch pad in Taiki, Hokkaido
The vehicle successfully carried it’s payload along the pre-designated flight trajectory,
becoming the first privately funded rocket in Japan to exceed an apogee of 100km
Details of the launch are as follows:
Launch time: 05:45:00 AM JS1T
Flight duration : 515 seconds
Apogee : 113.4 km
Duration from lift-off to apogee: 240 seconds
Splashdown distance: 37 km downrange from the launch site
This was the first successful attempt following two previous experimental launches of the MOMOseries,
and has provided valuable telemetry data for further development within IST.
Company Profile
NTERSTELLAR TECHNOLOGIES
Company Name: Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Location: Memu 690-4 Taiki Town Hokkaido, JAPAN 089-2113
Business Outline: Development of rocket vehicle, Launch service provider.
http://www.istellartech.com/7hbym/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PressRelease_2019050701.pdf