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Vehicle family profile

HANBIT

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

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Variants
1
Canonical variants linked to this family.
Historical missions
1
Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.
Peak listed capacity
90 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.

YearHistorical missionsForecast launches
202510
202601
202701
202801
202901
203001
203101
203201
203301
203401
203501
203601
203701
203801
203901
204001
204101

Performance Specs

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

VariantOrbitCapacityAltitudeInclinationSource
HANBIT-NANO
SSO90 kg500 kmUnknownINNOSPACE HANBIT-Nano official product page

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

MissionVariantLaunch
Launch 2025-F09
HANBIT-NANO
Dec 23, 2025

Forecasted Missions

Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.

MissionVariantAnnounced

No forecasted missions

No upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family.

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

VariantStagesMissionsStatus
HANBIT-NANO
Not stated1Active

Forecast Location Split

1 launch location represented.

YearLocationLaunchesConfidenceBasis
2026Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2027Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2028Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2029Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2030Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2031Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2032Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2033Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2034Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2035Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2036Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2037Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2038Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2039Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2040Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2041Alcantara Space Center125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Alcantara Space Center
2026 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2027 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2028 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2029 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2030 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2031 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Track
Alcantara Space Center
2032 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2033 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2034 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2035 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2036 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Alcantara Space Center
2037 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active HANBIT family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Mentions
132
All verified mentions of this launch vehicle family in source documents.
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Actions

The HANBIT-TLV suborbital rocket lifted off at 1:52 a.m. Eastern on 2023-03-19.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Mar 21, 2023South Korea’s Innospace succeeds in test launch

Hanbit-Nano’s first stage will be powered by a 15-ton-thrust hybrid engine that was tested on the HANBIT-TLV launch.

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CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Mar 21, 2023South Korea’s Innospace succeeds in test launch

An agreement signed on 2022-05-03 with the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) under the Brazilian Air Force specifies that HANBIT-TLV will carry onboard the SISNAV inertial navigation system during a test flight.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.4Dec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

The HANBIT-TLV test vehicle is a 16.3-meter single-stage rocket designed to verify the performance of a 15-ton-thrust rocket engine developed by INNOSPACE.

CapabilityValue 4.0Dec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

The HANBIT-TLV flight model left Incheon International Airport on 2022-12-02 (UTC) and arrived at the Alcântara Launch Center area via Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport in Brazil on 2022-12-03 (UTC).

PlanGeneralValue 1.0Dec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

INNOSPACE decided at 4 a.m. to delay the HANBIT-TLV launch due to a technical error and transported the rocket back to the assembly center from the launch pad.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

INNOSPACE delayed the HANBIT-TLV launch from 2022-12-19 to 2022-12-20 and then delayed it again due to a technical issue.

PlanValue 4.0Dec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

INNOSPACE installed a portable Coalesced Launch System (CLS) at its Cheongju plant and performed verification of interface integrity and systems compatibility with the CLS and HANBIT-TLV on 2022-05-27.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jun 2, 2022INNOSPACE’s first test launch vehicle ‘Hanbit-TLV’ to launch in December 2022

INNOSPACE signed an agreement on 2022-05-03 with the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) to carry the SISNAV inertial navigation system as a payload onboard HANBIT-TLV.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Jun 2, 2022INNOSPACE’s first test launch vehicle ‘Hanbit-TLV’ to launch in December 2022

The HANBIT-TLV test launch was scheduled to take place in December 2022 from the Alcântara Launch Center in Brazil to verify the flight performance of a 15-ton-thrust single-stage hybrid engine developed by INNOSPACE.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 2, 2022INNOSPACE’s first test launch vehicle ‘Hanbit-TLV’ to launch in December 2022

The first stages of the test rocket and Hanbit-Nano are powered by a 15-ton-thrust hybrid rocket engine that uses liquid oxygen and paraffin-based propellants.

CapabilityValue 4.2May 3, 2022South Korea’s Innospace schedules December test launch carrying Brazilian military payload

Hanbit-Nano is a two-stage small satellite launcher designed to carry up to a 50-kilogram payload to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

CapabilityValue 4.2May 3, 2022South Korea’s Innospace schedules December test launch carrying Brazilian military payload