{"id":22532,"date":"2021-09-09T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-contract-to-launch-entire-constellation-for-kineis\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:43:00","slug":"rocket-lab-announces-contract-to-launch-entire-constellation-for-kineis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-contract-to-launch-entire-constellation-for-kineis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab announces contract to launch entire constellation for Kin\u00e9is"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The California-based smallsat launcher, Rocket Lab, announced Wednesday that they will be launching 5 missions for Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity provider Kin\u00e9is. This will make Rocket Lab the exclusive launcher of Kin\u00e9is\u2019 <\/p>\n

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Long Beach, California. September 08, 2021<\/strong> \u2013 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (\u201cRocket Lab\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch provider and space systems company, today announced it has been awarded a contract to deploy an entire satellite constellation across five dedicated Electron missions for Kin\u00e9is, a global Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity provider. <\/p>\n

Scheduled for launch beginning in the second quarter of 2023, the constellation will enable Kin\u00e9is, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government\u2019s space agency CNES (Centre National d\u2019\u00c9tudes Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity. The multi-launch contract with Kin\u00e9is, which is subject to standard termination and launch rescheduling provisions, follows a similar bulk buy of launches earlier this year to deploy nine satellites across five dedicated Electron missions as part of a constellation for BlackSky, a provider of real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring services.<\/p>\n

Kin\u00e9is CEO, Alexandre Tisserant, says: \u201cWe are glad to entrust our constellation of 25 satellites to Rocket Lab. They are the leaders in small satellite launch and the obvious choice as launch partner to activate our constellation at such a pace. We designed and developed our 25 satellites in record time with the support of CNES, Thal\u00e8s Al\u00e9nia Space and HEMERIA in order to deliver a full new operational service to our existing and future customers \u2013 we are now eagerly counting down to first launch in 2023!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The proven accuracy and reliability of Electron\u2019s Kick Stage in successfully deploying 100+ satellites to date was a decisive factor in Kin\u00e9is selecting Rocket Lab as its launch partner. The Kick Stage will act as an orbital transfer vehicle to deliver each satellite in the Kin\u00e9is constellation to their precise orbital planes at a 650km altitude, allowing Kin\u00e9is to avoid sacrificing spacecraft mass for propulsion and to begin a fully operational service as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck, says: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be Kin\u00e9is\u2019 launch partner and look forward to delivering their constellation across five dedicated missions in quick succession. Deploying an entire constellation and having it operational quickly requires each satellite to be deployed to exactly the right orbit. Rocket Lab\u2019s track record of exceptional orbital deployment accuracy provides Kin\u00e9is with that assurance. By taking care of in-space transport, the Kick Stage makes life much easier for satellite constellation operators, enabling them to maximize spacecraft mass for their payload.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kin\u00e9is currently operates the Argos system, an international scientific collaboration between CNES, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), to monitor wildlife, fisheries, and to collect data about Earth\u2019s climate and environment through CLS. Kin\u00e9is\u2019 new constellation will complete the current system with more powerful 30kg-class nanosats that integrate IoT technology and a ship-tracking Automatic Identification System (AIS). Once deployed, this technology will allow Kin\u00e9is to expand across multiple industries and scale from 20,000 devices connected to millions.<\/p>\n

In addition to these missions, Rocket Lab will further contribute to the international Argos system with another upcoming Electron launch. Rocket Lab is the launch provider for the Argos-4 mission for General Atomics, which is developing the satellite for the United States Space Force on behalf of NOAA. That mission is currently scheduled to launch early 2022.<\/p>\n

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So far Rocket Lab has successfully launched 18 times and have rushed in a new market of small satellites launch vehicles. Rocket Lab mostly launches from their private spaceport in New Zealand but they are planning on bring their launch site in Virginia online soon.<\/p>\n

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The California-based smallsat launcher, Rocket Lab, announced Wednesday that they will be launching 5 missions for Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity provider Kin\u00e9is. This will make Rocket Lab the exclusive launcher of Kin\u00e9is\u2019 Long Beach, California. September 08, 2021 \u2013 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (\u201cRocket Lab\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch provider and space systems […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-22532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532"}],"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=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}