Hokkaido Spaceport (Taiki)
2017 to present
Site Details
- Country: Japan
- Operator: Hokkaido Spaceport and Interstellar Technologies
- Type: Commercial
Overview
A small coastal runway and launch site at Taiki in eastern Hokkaido. Interstellar Technologies flew its MOMO rocket repeatedly and reached space in 2021, the first private Japanese vehicle to do so. The site markets test and suborbital services to startups.
Related Launch Sites
Uchinoura (Kagoshima)
The Kagoshima Space Center on Kyushu, the cradle of Japanese space science. The Lambda-4S rocket orbited Ohsumi in February 1970, ...
Tanegashima Space Center
The largest Japanese launch center, occupying a granite headland south of Kyushu. H-IIA became one of the most reliable rockets fl...
Space Port Kii
The first private spaceport in Japan, on the Kii peninsula in Wakayama prefecture, built by Space One for its Kairos solid fuel ro...
Yoshinobu Launch Complex
The main orbital launch complex at Tanegashima, first used for the H-II rocket in 1994. It has launched the H-IIA, H-IIB, and H3 r...