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2022 · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

RAISE-3 & others

failureEpsilon | RAISE-3 & others

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.

Overview

Date / time
October 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM UTC
Outcome
failure
Launch site
Mu Center
Mission
RAISE-3 & others
Mission type
Technology
Orbit achieved
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
FailureFlight Termination System activated at T+06:28 after rocket was observed not in correct attitude for normal 2nd/3rd stage separation.
Launch vehicle
Epsilon →
Launch provider
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency →

Payloads deployed · 1

HJ-2E
LEO