Lambda (rocket family)

Lambda 4S (replica) and the launcher as exhibited at National Museum of Nature and Science.

Lambda is the name of a series of Japanese carrier rockets. It consisted of the types Lambda 2, LS-A, LSC-3, Lambda 3, Lambda 4 and LS-C, developed jointly by Institute of Industrial Science of University of Tokyo, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Tokyo University, and Prince Motor Company.

On February 11, 1970 the first Japanese satellite Ōsumi was launched using a Lambda 4 rocket.

The Lambda series are not guided rockets, this is because guidance techniques can often be diverted to military affairs.

The Lambda 4 was launched nine times, though five were failures. The first launch of the Lambda 4S rocket took place on September 26, 1966 from Kagoshima. A fourth-stage attitude control failed resulting in loss of the vehicle and payload. The last launch date was September 1, 1974.

External links

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/lambda.htm

Orbital launch systems
See also: Comparison of orbital launch systems
Current	Angara A5 Antares 230 Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Electron Epsilon Falcon 9 v1.2 "Full Thrust" GSLV Mk II Mk III H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C 5 6 7 11 Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Simorgh Soyuz-FG Soyuz-2 2.1a / STA 2.1b / STB 2-1v SPARK SS-520 Strela Unha Vega Zenit 3SL 3SLB 3F
In development	Angara 1.2 A5P Antares 300 Ariane 6 Cyclone-4M Eris Falcon 9 Block 5 Falcon Heavy H3 ITS KZ-11 KZ-21 Long March 8 9 LauncherOne Mayak Naga-L Naro-2 New Glenn Oril Proton Light Medium RPS SLS Soyuz-5 Sunkar Tronador II ULV Vector-R VLM VLS Alfa VLS Beta Vulcan
Retired	Antares 110/120/130 Ariane 1 2 3 4 ASLV Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Black Arrow Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Diamant Dnepr Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 v1.1 Feng Bao 1 GSLV Mk I H-I H-II Juno I Juno II Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M Lambda 4S Long March 1 2A 2E 3 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V N1 N-I N-II Naro-1 Paektusan Pilot Proton UR-500 K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz original L M U U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout SLV Space Shuttle Sparta Start-1 Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Tsyklon 2 3 4 Vanguard VLS-1 Zenit 2 2M

Japanese orbital launch systems

JAXA

Active	Epsilon H-IIA H-IIB
Planned	H3 SS-520(Three stage variant)

ISAS

Retired	Lambda (4S) Mu (4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V)

NASDA

Retired	N-I‡ N-II‡ H-I‡ H-II

Other

Cancelled	GX‡
Retired	J-I

‡ Based around licence-produced US rockets

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