42°28′30″N 143°22′35″E / 42.47500°N 143.37639°E / 42.47500; 143.37639
Interstellar Technologies, Inc. , or IST, is a Japanese private spaceflight company aiming to eventually build a launch vehicle for smallsats under 100 kg. It is a rocket spacelaunch company developing the MOMO [ja] (also Momo, etc.) sounding rocket and the orbital launch vehicles called ZERO [ja; fr] and DECA. Interstellar's stated goal is to reduce the cost of access to space. Interstellar is attempting to have the first privately developed rocket in Japan to reach space.