The Epsilon 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. It is capable of placing a 590 kg payload into Sun-synchronous orbit.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 2,271 kN
- Height
- 24.4 m
- Diameter
- 2.5 m
- Launch mass
- 91 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- $39M
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 590 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
6
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
83.3%
5 of 6
Current success streak
0
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Epsilon | RAISE-3 & others — Failure
- Epsilon | RAISE-2 & others — Success
- Epsilon | RAPIS-1 & others — Success
- Epsilon | ASNARO-2 — Success
- Epsilon | ERG (ARASE) — Success