{"id":47838,"date":"2025-12-18T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-space-test-program-s30-mission-with-disksat-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:42:25","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-space-test-program-s30-mission-with-disksat-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-space-test-program-s30-mission-with-disksat-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Launches Space Test Program S30 Mission With DiskSat Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon\u2019s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia Spaceport Authority\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday, according to <strong>U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>S30 has four research and development, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) DiskSat satellites, funded by NASA and developed by Aerospace Corp. as an alternative to cube satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming days, satellite operators will make initial contact with the deployed satellites to ensure they are functioning nominally,\u201d SSC said. \u201cOriginally planned for spring 2026 launch, the combined team worked through a myriad of technical and program management matters to shift STP-S30 five months ahead of the original scheduled date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s launch was under Space Force\u2019s Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), the service\u2019s program for rapid launches of small, experimental satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe STP-S30 mission illustrates the flexibility and responsiveness of commercially available launch solutions for placing ground-breaking military space capabilities,\u201d SSC said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;Rocket Lab Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon\u2019s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia Spaceport Authority\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday, according to U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command. S30 has four research and development, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) DiskSat satellites, funded by NASA and developed by Aerospace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47839,"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-47838","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\/47838"}],"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=47838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}