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.
Identity
- Aliases
- Epsilon enhanced modelEnhanced Epsilon Launch Vehicle
- Family Name
- Epsilon
- Full Name
- Enhanced Epsilon
- Reusability
- expendable
- Slug
- 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.
- Diameter M
- 2.6
- First Flight Year
- 2,016
- Height M
- 26
- Last Flight Year
- 2,022
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 95,400
- Operator Id
- vh76by4pqcqgwz2c255w6r83m17nh9vh
- Parent Vehicle Family Id
- nd7vysxsvpwf8f4h1p3f4e9bph8afgrc
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 1,200
- Sso
- 450
- Stages Count
- 3
Links
- Official Url
- https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/epsilon/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_(rocket)
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 7/13/2026, 10:38:52 AM
- Updated Time
- 7/13/2026, 10:38:52 AM