{"id":14590,"date":"2017-05-25T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/videos-rocket-labs-electron-rocket-lifts-off-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:02:40","slug":"videos-rocket-labs-electron-rocket-lifts-off-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/videos-rocket-labs-electron-rocket-lifts-off-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket lifts off for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron commercial satellite launcher lifted off from New Zealand on its debut test flight Thursday and soared into space on its maiden mission.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-foot-tall (17-meter) launcher did not reach orbit as intended, but Rocket Lab said the Electron successfully flew through the booster\u2019s first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and payload fairing separation.<\/p>\n<p>The Electron is designed to loft CubeSats and other small satellites into orbit, and Rocket Lab already has launch contracts with NASA and several commercial customers.<\/p>\n<p>These video clips provided by Rocket Lab show multiple views of the Electron lifting off from its commercial base in New Zealand, plus imagery captured by an on-board camera showing first stage separation, second stage ignition and the release of the rocket\u2019s payload fairing.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story on the test launch for details.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credits: Rocket Lab<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218907522\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218914970\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218909144\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218909226\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218914240\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron commercial satellite launcher lifted off from New Zealand on its debut test flight Thursday and soared into space on its maiden mission. The 55-foot-tall (17-meter) launcher did not reach orbit as intended, but Rocket Lab said the Electron successfully flew through the booster\u2019s first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[291,545,3223,25,1593,1595,1596,544],"class_list":["post-14590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-electron","tag-its-a-test","tag-launch","tag-launch-complex-1","tag-mahia-peninsula","tag-new-zealand","tag-rocket-lab"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}