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Super Strypi

SPARK, or Spaceborne Payload Assist Rocket - Kauai, also known as Super Strypi, is an American expendable launch system developed by the University of Hawaii, Sandia and Aerojet Rocketdyne. Designed to place miniaturized satellites into low Earth and sun-synchronous orbits, it is a derivative of the Strypi rocket which was developed in the 1960s in support of nuclear weapons testing. SPARK is being developed under the Low Earth Orbiting Nanosatellite Integrated Defense Autonomous System (LEONIDAS) program, funded by the Operationally Responsive Space Office of the United States Department of Defense.

Missions: 1
Successes: 0
Partial Failures: 0
Failures: 1
Success Streak: 0
Success Rate: 0%
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Configurations

Super Strypi
Sandia
Status: Retired
Price: $15.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 134 kN
Payload to LEO: 250 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 18.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.32 m

Launch Sites

LP-41, Kauai, Pacific Missile Range Facility

Launches

Sandia
Super Strypi | HiakaSat, STACEM & Others
Wed Nov 04, 2015 03:45 UTC
LP-41, Kauai, Pacific Missile Range Facility