M-V Launch Vehicle
M-V was the final and largest Mu-series launch vehicle, developed by the former ISAS and later operated within JAXA. The three-stage all-solid rocket could add a fourth-stage kick motor for high-energy missions and launched seven astronomy and planetary spacecraft between 1997 and 2006, with one launch failure.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Mu-5Mu VM-5 rocketM-Vロケット
- Family Name
- M-V
- Full Name
- M-V Launch Vehicle
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- M-V was the final and largest Mu-series launch vehicle, developed by the former ISAS and later operated within JAXA. The three-stage all-solid rocket could add a fourth-stage kick motor for high-energy missions and launched seven astronomy and planetary spacecraft between 1997 and 2006, with one launch failure.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 2.5
- Height M
- 30.8
- First Flight Year
- 1,997
- Last Flight Year
- 2,006
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- M-V exact three-stage configuration
- Notes
- JAXA identifies M-V as a three-stage all-solid launch vehicle with M-14, M-25, and M-34 stage motors. The four M-V SMSJ systems are included as first-stage attitude-control hardware. JAXA describes a fourth-stage kick motor as optional and mission-specific, so KM-V2 and payload-specific kick motors are intentionally omitted from this base configuration.
- Rocket Specs
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 140,000
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 1,800
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 3
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-V
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 11:51:53 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 18:15:12 UTC
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