Lambda

Lambda 4S is a small all-solid rocket from Japan's Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, flown with no guidance system at all. After four failures it launches Ohsumi on 11 February 1970, making Japan the fourth country to orbit a satellite with its own rocket.

Launches

5

Success rate

20%

4 failures

First flight

26 September 1966

Ohsumi 1

Last flight

11 February 1970

Ohsumi 5

Builder

Nissan

Height

16.5 m

Diameter

0.7 m

Stages

4

Boosters

2 × SB-310

Propellants

Solid

Payload to LEO

26 kg