Hapith I (Hapith-I)Maiden flight on Feb. 13rd at 06:00. 晉陞太空火箭於2月13日早上六點首次發射!! Maybe suborbital?http://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1648356346755455092
Due to heavy rain and wind, TiSPACE terminate the first launch but the process of ignition was completed. The date of next launch will be announced shortly.
QuoteDue to heavy rain and wind, TiSPACE terminate the first launch but the process of ignition was completed. The date of next launch will be announced shortly.
Despite torrential rain, I was thrilled to see TiSpace @LaunchService's HAPITH-I rocket test launch this morning in Taitung. Though aborted due to weather we still saw an ignition sequence. This is an indigenous Taiwan rocket designed to launch from TW!
Taiwanese space launch company Tispace has rescheduled its first flight to June in response to the #COVID19 crisis while continuing development work and preparing for production.
Taiwanese space launch company Tispace has rescheduled its first flight to June in response to the COVID-19 crisis while continuing development work and preparing for production.Tispace is looking at offering its technology for short-notice, flexible launches to the U.S. Defense Department.The June mission, a suborbital shot, will demonstrate the company’s hybrid-engine technology, the key to Tispace’s ambition for reducing launch costs by 90% from the already low levels of other new companies.The production rocket—the expendable, three-stage Hapith V—is intended to deliver up to 390 kg (860 lb.) to a low-inclination orbit of 600-700 km (370-430 mi.). Tispace said last year the price would be would be $6-7 million a shot, well above the undisclosed cost.In October 2019 the Hapith 1 demonstrator was due to fly in the following month. The schedule slipped but the company was ready to go on Feb. 13—until the appearance of severe high-altitude wind shear conditions at a base in southeastern Taiwan prevented the launch, said Yen-Sen Chen, the company’s founder and CEO.“After that, we were facing the coronavirus pandemic situation that has further delayed our launch plans,” Chen said, referring to the problem of crewmembers being unable to work close to each other. “So we are currently aiming for restarting our launch campaigns by June as the conditions for crowd gathering would become less of a public concern.”Meanwhile, the company is preparing for manufacturing. Its initial production facility, near Taipei, is intended to have a capacity of 12 rockets a year.The company will also be “performing more validation tests of the propulsion system and getting ready for a tight launch schedule once the activities resume,” Chen said. In October, Tispace was planning monthly Hapith V launches in 2021.Chen added: “We are also looking into the prospects of entering the DARPA Challenge for fast access to space.”There is no such DARPA Challenge right now, though the U.S. agency is looking at how to follow up a two-year competition that it ran until last month for demonstrating short-notice space launches. No one won the offered prizes for launching within weeks of notification, then again only days later from a different location.Tispace engines consist of a pressurized carbon-fiber tank feeding oxidizer (nitrous oxide) to a block of special hard rubber that acts as fuel. The fuel is encased in carbon fiber. There is almost no machinery.
花2個月打造出來的機動式發射系統，已經完成全系統功能測試及發射模擬驗證。It took us 2 months to build a mobile launch system that had completed the system testing with launch operation sequence simulation verified.
Hapith not launching from Taiwan anymore.https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1382889856460750849
Quote from: starbase on 04/16/2021 12:37 pmHapith not launching from Taiwan anymore.https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1382889856460750849Where can it possibly be launched then? Japan, Australia or somwhere else?
Quote from: Fmedici on 04/16/2021 02:10 pmQuote from: starbase on 04/16/2021 12:37 pmHapith not launching from Taiwan anymore.https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1382889856460750849Where can it possibly be launched then? Japan, Australia or somwhere else?tiSpace earlier mentioned launch sites in Australia and Norway for orbital launches to SSO.
Launch site issues force rocket firm overseas: sourcesSome Taiwan Innovative Space(TiSPACE) employees departed for Australia in February to complete quarantine and preparatory procedures prior to trial launches this month, a person said on condition of anonymity.Australian space company Southern Launch would help Taiwan Innovative Space launch its sounding rocket at a site near Adelaide, South Australia, another person with knowledge of the matter said.https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/05/07/2003756994
Am I the only one that finds the idea of a launch before the end of June a bit of an overestimation?
IRIS-A and NUTSAT are to be launched by Momentus on Vigoride buses, so based on latest news they won't be launched in July.
Quote from: Bean Kenobi on 05/31/2021 02:56 pmIRIS-A and NUTSAT are to be launched by Momentus on Vigoride buses, so based on latest news they won't be launched in July.This is for a suborbital launch to 150 km, possibly by Hapith I, carrying an ionosphere scintillation experiment."The mission is to carry an ionosphere scintillation package developed by National Central University (NCU)."
tiSPACE is currently considering shifting manufacturing of complete rocket systems from Taiwan to Australia.“We have devoted ourselves in the past 5 years in the technical developments of the most cost-effective launch capabilities,” said tiSPACE’s CEO, Yen-Sen Chen.“But we will not stop at launch. Instead, our launch capabilities are our keys for opening the tremendous opportunities in commercial applications in space.”“And, only through versatile launches and space applications, can tiSPACE be among the key players in the new frontier of the global commercial space market.”Southern Launch has been given approval to conduct three sub-orbital test launches by the end of 2021 from the Whalers Way site.Data collected will be used to measure environmental impacts to assist in determining the site’s viability as a location for future launches.
