Interstellar Technologies

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This article is about the Japanese spacelaunch rocket company. For interstellar technology, see interstellar travel and interstellar communication.

Interstellar Technologies, Inc. (Japanese: インターステラテクノロジズ（株）, Hepburn: Intāsutera Tekunorojizu (kabu)), or IST, is a Japanese private spaceflight company aiming to eventually build a launch vehicle for smallsats under 100 kg. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO (also Momo, etc.) suborbital rocket and the ZERO orbital launch vehicle. Interstellar's stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space.

In 2017, it became the first Japanese company to launch a privately-developed space rocket, though the launch was unsuccessful. A subsequent test in 2019 was successful at taking a 20 kg payload on a suborbital trajectory to the edge of space. As of 2017, the company planned to develop a rocket by 2020 that would be capable of launching small satellites into orbit. As of 2018, the president is Takahiro Inagawa.

As of June 2018, the company had raised about ¥30 million (about US$250,000) in crowdfunding.

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