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Kazunori Makino

Co-founder of Interstellar Technologies inc.

📍 Toyama-Takaoka Metropolitan Area, Japan🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2016
Operator-angel🌍 Japan
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Network enginee and Media Relations, Employee shareholders
Mar 2016
Interstellar Technologies Inc. is a Japanese start-up which aims to realize a future where space is within everyone's reach by providing low-cost and convenient space transportation services. The company has achieved to reach space 3 times with the sounding rocket MOMO, making it the first and only Japanese private company to reach space. It is now in full-scale development of the next-generation microsatellite launch vehicle ZERO. IST has also established Our Stars, a wholly owned subsidiary for satellite development, aiming to be the first vertically integrated rocket and satellite service in Japan. 北海道大樹町を拠点とする、インターステラテクノロジズ株式会社(IST)はロケットの開発・製造・打上げを行う宇宙の総合インフラ会社です。 2019年に日本で初めて、民間企業が単独で開発・製造したロケットを宇宙空間まで打ち上げました。 観測ロケットMOMOでこれまでに計3回、国内民間企業単独として初めて且つ唯一の宇宙空間到達を達成、次世代機となる超小型人工衛星打上げロケットZEROの開発を本格化させています。人工衛星開発の100%子会社Our Starsも設立し、国内初のロケット×人工衛星の垂直統合サービスを目指しています。
Experience · 5 entries
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2016
Interstellar Technologies inc.
Network enginee and Media Relations, Employee shareholders
Mar 2016
Network enginee and Media Relations, Employee shareholders
Mar 2016
Interstellar Technologies Inc. is a Japanese start-up which aims to realize a future where space is within everyone's reach by providing low-cost and convenient space transportation services. The company has achieved to reach space 3 times with the sounding rocket MOMO, making it the first and only Japanese private company to reach space. It is now in full-scale development of the next-generation microsatellite launch vehicle ZERO. IST has also established Our Stars, a wholly owned subsidiary for satellite development, aiming to be the first vertically integrated rocket and satellite service in Japan. 北海道大樹町を拠点とする、インターステラテクノロジズ株式会社(IST)はロケットの開発・製造・打上げを行う宇宙の総合インフラ会社です。 2019年に日本で初めて、民間企業が単独で開発・製造したロケットを宇宙空間まで打ち上げました。 観測ロケットMOMOでこれまでに計3回、国内民間企業単独として初めて且つ唯一の宇宙空間到達を達成、次世代機となる超小型人工衛星打上げロケットZEROの開発を本格化させています。人工衛星開発の100%子会社Our Starsも設立し、国内初のロケット×人工衛星の垂直統合サービスを目指しています。
2013
Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Co-Founder, Chief Exective Officer
Jan 2013
2010
Manned Rocket Project Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation
Board Member
Apr 2010
2006
MAKINO MECHANICAL DESIGN
Rocket Propulsion Engineer, Founder
Aug 2006
Investment activity
2010–2016 · 3 investments
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