Mu-3S-II | EXPRESS

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Government)
• Rocket: Mu-3S-II — Mu family

Mission

EXPRESS (Experiment Re-entry Space System) was a multi-national (Germany, Japan, Russia, Australia) project for a small, micro gravity and reentry research spacecraft. The spacecraft was procured from Khrunichev for a cost of 30 Mio. DM.

• Type: Planetary Science
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Mu Center
• Location: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
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