Innospace () is a South Korean startup company specializing in developing hybrid space rocket. It was founded in 2017.

History

Innospace was founded in 2017 by Kim Soo-jong, who received his master's and doctorate in aerospace engineering from

Korea Aerospace University Korea Aerospace University (KAU, ) is a private university located in Goyang, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and ...

. In June 2024, the company signed a launch service contract with Italy's CShark S.r.l. and Thailand's EOS Orbit for the small satellite launch vehicle HANIT. Under this contract, Innospace will perform commercial launch missions to place 35 CShark's satellites into target orbit over a three-year period starting in 2025 and one EOS Orbit's satellite starting in 2025. According to what Innospace revealed in March 2025, the company succeeded in independently developing HANBIT-NANO's launch pad.

Active missions

HANBIT-TLV

On 21 March 2023, the company launched it's HANBIT-TLV single-stage thrust hybrid suborbital rocket from the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil. This was the first space vehicle launch by the

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’s private sector. The company's shares were first publicly traded on 2 July 2024.

Future missions

The company is planning its first commercial space missions in 2025.

HANBIT-Nano

HANBIT-Nano is a two-stage launch vehicle that is 21.8m long and 1.4m in diameter and can launch 90kg into a

sun-synchronous orbit A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time. More technically, it is ...

at an altitude of 500 km. The first stage is equipped with one 25-ton hybrid engine, and the second stage is equipped with one 3-ton engine. The second stage operates the hybrid engine HyPER and the methane engine LiMER according to the launch mission requested by the customer, thereby providing a customized launch service.

HANBIT-Micro

HANBIT-Micro is a two-stage launch vehicle that is 22.5m long and 1.4m in diameter and can launch 170kg into a

at an altitude of 500 km. The first stage is equipped with one 25-ton hybrid engine, and the second stage is equipped with one 3-ton methane engine. A final

kick stage A kick is a physical Strike (attack), strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee (strike), ...

capable of 4kN thrust performs the final orbital maneuvering.

HANBIT-Mini

HANBIT-Mini is a three-stage launch vehicle that is 39.6m long and 3.7m in diameter and can launch 1300kg into a

at an altitude of 500 km. The first stage is equipped with nine 25-ton hybrid engines, and the second stage is equipped with one 25-ton hybrid engine, and the third stage with two 3-ton methane engines.

References

External links

Official website
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