Launch Vehicles

Vehicle family profile

Epsilon

Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.

IHI Aerospacedevelopment

Variants

4

Canonical variants linked to this family.

Historical missions

6

Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.

Peak listed capacity

590 kg

Maximum payload capacity across listed variants and orbits.

Launch Cadence

Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.

Year	Historical missions	Forecast launches
2013	1	0
2016	1	0
2018	1	0
2019	1	0
2021	1	0
2022	1	0
2026	0	2
2027	0	2
2028	0	2
2029	0	2
2030	0	2
2031	0	2
2032	0	2
2033	0	2
2034	0	2
2035	0	2
2036	0	2

Performance Specs

Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.

Variant	Orbit	Capacity	Altitude	Inclination	Source
Epsilon S	LEO	590 kg	Unknown	Unknown	Manual Epsilon S low-confidence small-launcher fallback.

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

Mission	Variant	Launch
Launch 2022-F04	Epsilon	Oct 12, 2022
RAISE-2	Epsilon 2PBS	Nov 9, 2021
RAPIS	Epsilon 2PBS	Jan 18, 2019
ASNARO 2

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

Variant	Stages	Missions	Status
Epsilon	Not stated	2	retired
Epsilon 2	Not stated	1	retired
Epsilon 2PBS	Not stated	3	retired
Epsilon S	Not stated	0	development

Forecast Location Split

1 launch location represented.

Year	Location	Launches	Confidence	Basis
2026	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2027	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2028	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2029	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2030	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2031	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2032	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2033	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2034	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2035	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2036	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2037	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2038	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2039	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2040	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.
2041	Uchinoura Space Center \| M-V Launch Complex	2	20%	Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback. Site-year coverage backfill copied nearest prior site-rate row.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2026 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2027 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2028 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2029 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2030 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.

Uchinoura Space Center | M-V Launch Complex

2031 · 20% confidence

2

Editable low-confidence Epsilon family annual throughput fallback.