Epsilon | RAISE-3 & others
Status: Failure | Launched: Oct 12, 2022 00:50 UTC
Failure reason: Flight Termination System activated at T+06:28 after rocket was observed not in correct attitude for normal 2nd/3rd stage separation.
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Government)
- Rocket: Epsilon — Epsilon family
Mission
RAISE-3 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) was a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite was to be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. The launch is also carrying QPS-SAR 3 & 4 radar Earth observation satellites for iQPS, and 5 cubesats for various Japanese institutions & companies.
- Type: Technology
- Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Mu Center
- Location: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
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Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-08-22T21:02:10.804714+00:00.