Stasiun Peluncuran Roket

LAPAN Rocket Launching Station
Stasiun Peluncuran Roket Pameungpeuk
Alternative names	Balai Produksi dan Pengujian Roket LAPAN
General information
Status	Active
Location	Cilautereun, Pameungpeuk, Garut, West Java
Country	Indonesia
Coordinates	7.646643°S 107.689018°E / -7.646643; 107.689018
Opened	August 1965
Owner	LAPAN Government of Indonesia
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Hideo Itokawa
Website
https://tekgan.lapan.go.id/

The launch of RX-320 at Pameungpeuk Spaceport, 2008

Stasiun Peluncuran Roket or Staspro (literally "Rocket Launching Station") is a rocket launch site managed by the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN). It is located at Pameungpeuk Beach in the Garut Regency on West Java near Cilautereun and has been active since 1965 to perform engine tests and launch sounding rockets.

The facility was built from 1963 through cooperation between Indonesia and Japan, as the station was designed by Hideo Itokawa with the aim to support high-atmospheric research using Kappa-8 rockets. The first Kappa launch from Pameungpeuk took place on 7 August 1965. Today the site comprises a Motor Assembly building, a Launch Control Center, a Meteorological Sounding System building, a Rocket Motor Storage hangar and a dormitory.

The site has launched numerous solid-fuel rockets from the RX family (Roket Eksperimental), in particular the RX-250-LPN. Newer developments focus on building multi-stage rockets from individual RX elements, under the moniker RPS for Roket Pengorbit Satelit (literally "Satellite Orbiting Rocket"). The agency's goal is to reach orbit with indigenous rockets and satellites.

See also

• List of human spaceflights
• Launch pad
• Office of Commercial Space Transportation (United States)
• Range safety

External links

• Map and addresses of LAPAN facilities
• LAPAN information and chronology on Encyclopedia Astronautica