Flight 6
MOMO
Interstellar Technologies
Mission
Flight 6
Type: Suborbital
Despite the MOMO unit’s number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Location
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
7 rockets have launched from Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan.

Rocket
MOMO v1 – Interstellar Technologies
Family: MOMO
Length: 10.1 m
Diameter: 0.5 m
Launch Mass: 1 T
The MOMO v1 was manufactured by Interstellar Technologies with the first launch on 2021-07-03. MOMO v1 has 2 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 2 launches. Momo is a Japanese sounding rocket capable of delivering 20 kg to a height of 100 km. It is privately developed by Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST).
The v1 upgrade includes a higher thrust engine with a silica fiber reinforced plastic nozzle, as well as increased mass and length.
Agency
Interstellar Technologies
Abbreviation: ISTECH
Administration: Takahiro Inagawa
Founded: 2005
Country: JPN
Interstellar Technologies, Inc. (Japanese: インターステラテクノロジズ(株) Hepburn: Intāsutera Tekunorojizu (kabu)) is a Japanese NewSpace company. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO launcher. Its stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space. In 2017, it became the first Japanese company to launch a privately developed space rocket, though the launch was unsuccessful. The company plans to complete a rocket by 2020 that would be capable of launching small satellites into orbit.
Long live the MOMO Launcher .