Kappa (rocket)
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Kappa is a family of solid-fuel Japanese sounding rockets, which were built starting from 1956.
Rockets[]
Kappa 1[]
- Ceiling: 40 km
- Takeoff thrust: 10.00 kN
- Diameter: 0.13 m
- Length: 2.70 m
Kappa 2[]
- Ceiling: 40 km
- Mass: 300 kg
- Diameter: 0.22 m
- Length: 5 m
Kappa 6 (in two stages)[]
- Pay load: 20 kg
- Ceiling: 60 km
- Takeoff weight: 270 kg
- Diameter: 0.25 m
- Length: 5.61 m
Kappa 7[]
- Ceiling: 50 km
- Diameter: 0.42 m
- Length: 8.70 m
Kappa 8 (in two stages)[]
- Pay load: 50 kg
- Ceiling: 160 km
- Takeoff weight: 1500 kg
- Diameter: 0.42 m
- Length: 10.90 m
Kappa 4[]
- Ceiling: 80 km
- Takeoff thrust: 105.00 kN
- Diameter: 0.33 m
- Length: 5.90 m
Kappa 9L[]
- Pay load: 15 kg
- Ceiling: 350 km
- Takeoff weight: 1550 kg
- Diameter: 0.42 m
- Length: 12.50 m
Kappa 9M[]
- Pay load: 50 kg
- Ceiling: 350 km
- Mass: 1500 kg
- Diameter: 0.42 m
- Length: 11.10 m
Kappa 8L[]
- Pay load: 25 kg
- Ceiling: 200 km
- Takeoff weight: 350 kg
- Diameter: 0.25 m
- Length: 7.30 m
Kappa 10[]
- Ceiling: 742 km
See also[]
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Categories:
- Solid-fuel rockets
- Sounding rockets of Japan
- Japanese inventions
- Spacecraft stubs