Japan's Space One to launch Kairos rocket February 25

The Tokyo-based company aims to be Japan's first to put a satellite into orbit using a rocket developed solely by the private sector.

Carrying five microsatellites, the No. 3 unit of the Kairos rocket is scheduled to lift off from the company's Spaceport Kii launch site in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, around between 11:00 am and 11:20 am on February 25, Space One said Monday.

"We have been making preparations carefully, checking necessary steps one by one," Space One President Masakazu Toyoda told a press conference.

"The No. 3 unit represents the determination of Space One," he said.

Space One, established in 2018, aims to launch 30 rockets a year in the 2030s.