Mu and/or M designates a series of Japanese booster rockets. All rockets of the series use firm of fuels and by the Uchinoura space center are started.
early one Japanese booster rockets 1966 was tested with Mu-1 the first rocket of the series on a suborbitalen flight. One summarizes the following rocket types to mV as Mu-3: 1969 took place a suborbitaler start from M-3D. 1971 (after a miss 1970) were started with the four-level M-4S the first Japanese satellite, further starts took place until 1972. With the three speed successor M-3C from 1974 to 1979 three satellites were successfully started. The next generation was M-3H, this rocket was from 1977 to 1978 in use. Their successor M-3S was from 1980 to 1984 in use. In the years from 1985 to 1995 M-3S2 followed. [ work on ]
mV is used since 1997. So far there was 3 starts (of it 2 successfully) with the three speed mVs and a start with the four-level mVs km. The maximum pay load amounts to 1800 kg in a 30° - orbit in 200 km height and/or. 1300 kg into a polar orbit in 200 km height for mV, 1800 kg in a 30° - orbit in 400 km height for mV km (?). the total mass of the mVs amounts to 137500 kg, those of the mVs km 139000 kg.
