JAXA's SS-520-5, a modified sounding rocket, launched the 3 kg TRICOM-1R (Tasuki) CubeSat from Uchinoura, becoming the smallest rocket ever to reach orbit, a year after the SS-520-4 predecessor failed shortly after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only SS-520-5 flight
- Date and time
- 3 February 2018, 05:03 UTC
- Rocket
- SS-520-5
- Builder
- IHI
- Launch site
- KS Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-016
- Launches in 2018
- 16th of 114
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