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SS-520-5

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · S-Series · RETIRED

SS-520-5 is an expendable launch vehicle built by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It lifts 4 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 3 February 2018. It has flown 1 times with 1 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
HeightNOT ON FILE
Diameter0.5 m
Payload to LEO4 kg
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight3 February 2018
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights1
Successful1
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant5

About SS-520

The fifth configuration of the SS-520, succeeded as the smallest rocket to put something into orbit. It holds this title to this day.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

SS-520 is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

SS-520-5 in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launchers no. 5 & 6 front
Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launchers no. 5 & 6 frontBrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launchers no. 5 & 6 rear
Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launchers no. 5 & 6 rearBrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launcher no. 5 front
Minsk port bow SS-N-12 Sandbox launcher no. 5 frontBrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has SS-520-5 flown?
1 times, with 1 successes and 0 failures.
What is SS-520-5's success rate?
100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
How much can SS-520-5 lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists SS-520-5 at 4 kg to low Earth orbit.
Is SS-520-5 reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists SS-520-5 as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.