{"id":51406,"date":"2024-04-24T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-labs-electron-rocket-deploys-two-payloads-500km-apart-in-orbit\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:16:49","slug":"rocket-labs-electron-rocket-deploys-two-payloads-500km-apart-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-labs-electron-rocket-deploys-two-payloads-500km-apart-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron Rocket Deploys Two Payloads 500km Apart in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>\u2018s fifth successful launch of 2024, the New Zealand-based launcher deployed the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology\u2019s (KAIST) NEONSAT-1 satellite and <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System to their intended orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s \u201cBeginning Of The Swarm\u201d (B.T.S.) mission \u2014 its 47<sup>th<\/sup> on the Electron rocket \u2014 lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on the morning of April 24. After reaching space, it deployed the two payloads approximately 500 km apart, starting with NEONSAT-1. Rocket Lab said that the capability to deploy two satellites more than 500 km apart on the same launch was enabled by Electron\u2019s Kick Stage, a small stage with engine relight capability to enable last-mile delivery.<\/p>\n<p>KAIST\u2019s NEONSAT-1 is the first of 11 planned satellites in a constellation designed to take daily images of the Korean Peninsula from space. NASA\u2019s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is a technology demonstration of \u201csolar sails,\u201d which utilize new materials that use sunlight to propel a spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Electron is the United States\u2019 second-most frequently launched rocket annually. Rocket Lab said that its next Electron mission will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rocket Lab\u2018s fifth successful launch of 2024, the New Zealand-based launcher deployed the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology\u2019s (KAIST) NEONSAT-1 satellite and NASA\u2018s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System to their intended orbit. Rocket Lab\u2019s \u201cBeginning Of The Swarm\u201d (B.T.S.) mission \u2014 its 47th on the Electron rocket \u2014 lifted off from Rocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51407,"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-51406","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\/51406"}],"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=51406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}