EXPRESS

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 15 Jan 1995, 01:45 pm UTC

Rocket: Mu-3S-II (Mu)

Provider: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Mission

Type: Planetary Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

EXPRESS (Experiment Re-entry Space System) was a multi-national (Germany, Japan, Russia, Australia) project for a small, micro gravity and reentry research spacecraft. The spacecraft was procured from Khrunichev for a cost of 30 Mio. DM.