{"id":17863,"date":"2019-12-06T21:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-japanese-satellite-thats-designed-to-spit-out-shooting-stars-for-olympics\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T21:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:20:50","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-japanese-satellite-thats-designed-to-spit-out-shooting-stars-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-japanese-satellite-thats-designed-to-spit-out-shooting-stars-for-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab launches Japanese satellite that\u2019s designed to spit out shooting stars for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Electron \u201cRunning Out Of Fingers\u201d launch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dyPzrYDW8A8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket lifted off from its New Zealand launch pad today, sending a shooting-star satellite and six other miniaturized satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan\u2019s ALE-2 satellite is designed to drop bunches of chemical pellets into the atmosphere from orbit, producing fiery streaks of glowing plasma that look like meteor showers. The \u201cSky Canvas\u201d mission, arranged with logistical help from Seattle-based Spaceflight, could well light up the skies over the Tokyo Olympics\u2019 opening ceremonies next June. New Zealand authorities cleared the satellite for launch after determining that the displays wouldn\u2019t pose a danger and would have a \u201cnegligible\u201d effect on light pollution.<\/li>\n<li>The six other payloads are 2-inch-wide PocketQube microsatellites from Alba Orbital, built for purposes ranging from a demonstration of satellite-to-satellite communications to a student-led experiment to measure human-made electromagnetic pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s mission was nicknamed \u201cRunning Out of Fingers\u201d because it was the 10th launch for Rocket Lab\u2019s low-cost Electron rocket. This was the first rocket equipped with guidance and navigation hardware for monitoring the first-stage booster\u2019s atmospheric re-entry, as well as a thruster system to control the booster\u2019s orientation during descent. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck tweeted that the systems worked as planned, marking a \u201cmassive step\u201d toward recovering and reusing the boosters to drive down the cost of future launches .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket lifted off from its New Zealand launch pad today, sending a shooting-star satellite and six other miniaturized satellites into orbit. Japan\u2019s ALE-2 satellite is designed to drop bunches of chemical pellets into the atmosphere from orbit, producing fiery streaks of glowing plasma that look like meteor showers. The \u201cSky Canvas\u201d mission, [&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":[4911,4745,1596,544,2340,2341],"class_list":["post-17863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ale","tag-electron-rocket","tag-new-zealand","tag-rocket-lab","tag-spaceflight","tag-spaceflight-industries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863"}],"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=17863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}