A Japanese mission to demonstrate the concept of using a minimally modified sounding rocket to place a small satellite into orbit. On 14 January 2017, an SS-520-4 rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Centre at 8:33 a.m. (JST) with a TRICOM-1 Cubesat on board. The launch was to last seven-and-a-half minutes from lift-off to spacecraft separation, but the rocket suffered a problem before second-stage ignition, resulting in mission failure. Had the launch been successful it would have marked a new record for small rocket launch capability.