{"id":47081,"date":"2026-04-24T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-introduces-next-generation-star-tracker-component\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:48","slug":"rocket-lab-introduces-next-generation-star-tracker-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-introduces-next-generation-star-tracker-component\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Introduces Next-Generation Star Tracker Component"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Rocket Lab<\/b> has introduced the next-generation of its star tracker lineup, expanding the company\u2019s component offerings. The new High-Performance Star Tracker (ST-HP), is designed for longer duration spacecraft missions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab has flown more than 185 star tracker units overall; it\u2019s heritage model ST-RT has more than 175 units on orbit since 2013. It also offers the ST-HV model, designed for more rapid production, which has more than 14 units on orbit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company said the new ST-HP has advanced radiation hardening. It is designed for more than 50 kRad, board-level Total Irradiation Dose in order to maintain precise spacecraft pointing and payload stability during long-term missions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRocket Lab continues to evolve our end-to-end offerings by introducing state-of-the-art solutions to meet the changing needs of commercial and government missions,\u201d said Brad Clevenger, president of Rocket Lab USA. \u201cBy building on decades of experience, we\u2019re delivering a more resilient product that gives customers the high accuracy and performance they need without added cost, lead time, or manufacturing risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab has introduced the next-generation of its star tracker lineup, expanding the company\u2019s component offerings. The new High-Performance Star Tracker (ST-HP), is designed for longer duration spacecraft missions.&nbsp; Rocket Lab has flown more than 185 star tracker units overall; it\u2019s heritage model ST-RT has more than 175 units on orbit since 2013. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47082,"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-47081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47081"}],"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=47081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}