{"id":2590,"date":"2025-10-22T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-schedules-sixth-mission-for-constellation-operator-iqps\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:11:31","slug":"rocket-lab-schedules-sixth-mission-for-constellation-operator-iqps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-schedules-sixth-mission-for-constellation-operator-iqps\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Schedules Sixth Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1761125805229_638967226067995890.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"387\" alt=\"Rocket Lab Schedules Sixth Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1761125805229_638967226067995890.png\" style=\"opacity: 0.00885637;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1761125805229_638967226067995890.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"387\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer <strong>Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space<\/strong>, a Japan-based Earth&nbsp;imaging company. The mission will be Electron\u2019s 74th launch to date and 16th mission this year.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming dedicated launch, named \u2018The Nation God Navigates&#8217;, is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on November 5, 2025 UTC. The mission will deploy QPS-SAR-14, nicknamed YACHIHOKO-I for the Japanese god of nation-building, to a 575km circular Earth orbit. This satellite will join the rest of the QPS-SAR constellation in providing high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and Earth monitoring services globally. iQPS aims to build a constellation of 36 SAR satellites that will provide near-real-time images of Earth every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Rocket Lab Upcoming Missions<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018The Nation God Navigates\u2019 will be the sixth mission deployed on Electron for iQPS, following previous successful missions \u2018The Moon God Awakens\u2019 in December 2023 as well as \u2018The Lightning God Reigns\u2019, &nbsp;\u2018The Sea God Sees\u2019 , \u2018The Mountain God Guards\u2019 and \u2018The Harvest Goddess Thrives\u2019 in 2025. Beyond this mission, six more dedicated iQPS missions are set to launch on Electron in 2026 and beyond, making Rocket Lab the go-to provider for their constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab is a leader in responsive launch and precise orbital access for a range of small satellite operators globally. The world\u2019s most frequently launched commercial small-lift rocket, Electron, continues to demonstrate its reliability amid a busy launch cadence, achieving 100% mission success on all missions this year \u2013 with more launches scheduled from now through the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, a Japan-based Earth&nbsp;imaging company. The mission will be Electron\u2019s 74th launch to date and 16th mission this year. The upcoming dedicated launch, named \u2018The Nation God Navigates&#8217;, [&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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}