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SS-520-4

S-Series family · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · Retired

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The fourth configuration of SS-520. It would have been the smallest and lightest vehicle to put something into orbit, but it lost telemetry and was told to abort, falling into the ocean.

Specifications

Thrust
Height
9.7 m
Diameter
0.5 m
Launch mass
3 t
Stages
3
Launch cost
LEO capacity
4 kg
GTO capacity
GEO capacity
SSO capacity

Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.

Flight record

Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
0%
0 of 1
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