Enhanced Epsilon
Enhanced Epsilon was the 26-metre, 95.4-tonne operational development of Japan’s Epsilon solid launch vehicle. It increased payload volume and performance and flew as Epsilon-2 through Epsilon-6 from 2016 to 2022; the first four Enhanced vehicles succeeded, while Epsilon-6 failed during ascent.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Epsilon enhanced modelEnhanced Epsilon Launch Vehicle
- Family Name
- Epsilon
- Full Name
- Enhanced Epsilon
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
- Variant Name
- Enhanced
Details
- Description
- Enhanced Epsilon was the 26-metre, 95.4-tonne operational development of Japan’s Epsilon solid launch vehicle. It increased payload volume and performance and flew as Epsilon-2 through Epsilon-6 from 2016 to 2022; the first four Enhanced vehicles succeeded, while Epsilon-6 failed during ascent.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 2.6
- Height M
- 26
- First Flight Year
- 2,016
- Last Flight Year
- 2,022
- Operator
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Enhanced Epsilon basic three-stage configuration
- Notes
- JAXA's basic Enhanced Epsilon configuration: SRB-A3 first stage, M-35 second stage, and KM-V2c third stage, without the optional PBS.
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Enhanced Epsilon optional PBS configuration
- Notes
- JAXA's optional precision-insertion configuration adds one hydrazine PBS above the exact SRB-A3/M-35/KM-V2c three-stage stack.
- Rocket Specs
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 95,400
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 1,200
- Sso
- 450
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 3
Links
- Official Url
- https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/epsilon/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_(rocket)
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 10:38:52 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 16:33:00 UTC
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