Japanese space agency launched the world's smallest satellite rocket

The Japanese space agency has just introduced the world's smallest rocket to bring satellites to space.

According to TheVerge, one year after his tiny rocket failed to achieve the desired trajectory in the experiment, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) successfully launched another missile last weekend. And this is the smallest rocket in the world that can bring satellites to orbit at this time.

This is the smallest rocket in the world that can bring satellites to orbit at this time.

According to JAXA, this is a demonstration experiment. Their missiles brought TRICOM-1R into orbit - the system consists of three cubesat blocks (CubeSat is an international program initiated by California Polytechnic State University - Cal Poly) to help universities, colleges and private companies to bring small and amateur satellites into orbit at low cost.

Accordingly, a standard format has been set, which is required to respond from satellites, before being helped on the space station and into orbit: standard shape (1U in English from One Unit , one unit) size 10cm x 10cm x 10cm and maximum weight of 1.33kg. The satellites are packed in a special boot device (poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD), which can hold up to 3 CubeSat satellites of 1 rocket - According to Wikipedia.

With a successful debut, SS-520-5 was the smallest rocket that ever put satellites on orbit.

New Zealand's Rocket Lab successfully launched the first small rocket called Electron last month, bringing four satellites into orbit. Small load-bearing missiles such as Electron and SS-520-5 of Japan help reduce the cost of going up orbit. It paved the way for small companies to launch satellites into orbit without having to hire heavy missiles from SpaceX, Orbital ATK or United Launch Alliance.