Test Flight
Test flight of HyImpulse's SR75 sounding rocket
HYI Mission
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Pad Launch
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Location Launch
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May 3, 2024, 5:10 AM
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Single-stage suborbital sounding rocket developed by German private company HyImpulse. Used to offer commercial microgravity services and as a test bed for the company's SL1 orbital rocket.
Diameter
0.64 m
Thrust
75 kN
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2024
Total Launches
1
Successful
1
Failed
0
Consecutive Success
1
Maiden flight: May 3, 2024
Launch successful
SourceLiftoff
SourceHold at T-2 Minutes, due to Range violation
SourceOfficial Webcast by The Space Down Under has started
SourceTargeting May 03 at 05:00 UTC for liftoff
Source1 day delay for final range preparations
SourceNET May 1 UTC.
SourceNET early May
SourceNET late April
SourceNET Q1 2024.
SourceAdding launch NET December 2023
SourceThe Koonibba Test Range is a rocket test range site near the township of Koonibba in the far west of South Australia. Rockets are launched to the north over a clear area – the Yumbarra Conservation Park and Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area – for 145 kilometres (90 mi).
Timezone
Australia/Adelaide
Local Launch Time
May 3, 2024, 2:40 PM
Total Launches
1
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
-31.8856, 133.4487
HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility.
Founded
2018
Administrator
CEO: Mario Kobald
Total Launches
1
Successful
1
Failed
0
Pending
1
Consecutive Success
1