{"id":52051,"date":"2024-01-10T00:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-to-launch-northstar-and-spire-ssa-mission-this-month\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T00:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:51:19","slug":"rocket-lab-to-launch-northstar-and-spire-ssa-mission-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-to-launch-northstar-and-spire-ssa-mission-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to Launch NorthStar and Spire SSA Mission This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A group of four space situational awareness satellites for <b>Spire Global<\/b> and <b>NorthStar Earth &amp; Space<\/b> will be <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>\u2019s first launch of 2024. Rocket Lab announced Monday it plans to launch the mission no earlier than Jan. 18 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These satellites will be the first of NorthStar\u2019s space situational awareness (SSA) satellite, and they will monitor all near-Earth orbits to provide information on space objects, tracking, orbit determination, collision avoidance, navigation, and proximity alerts. NorthStar plans to have 12 satellites on orbit by 2026 to increase coverage to greater than 60% of the near-Earth orbital sky, and up to 100%, when used in collaboration with other sensors.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthStar has patiently invested in the realization of an unprecedented turnkey SSA service designed to outperform the challenges of space congestion and security in space that are mounting exponentially every day. \u201cThis has been years in the making,\u201d commented Stewart Bain, CEO and founder of NorthStar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spire Global built the satellites and will operate them. NorthStar is a customer of Spire\u2019s space services business. Spire landed the deal with NorthStar in March 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe upcoming launch of the first commercial space situational awareness constellation for NorthStar symbolizes more than just a technological achievement; it\u2019s a reflection of our shared dedication to addressing sustainability in space,\u201d commented Peter Platzer, Spire Global CEO. \u201cThrough our Space as a Service model, we\u2019ve removed the barriers of building a business in space so that companies like NorthStar can create new \u2018firsts\u2019 and quickly bring to market solutions to address our biggest challenges on Earth and in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab plans to splash down and retrieve Electron\u2019s first stage during the mission, as part of its work to make Electron a reusable rocket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of four space situational awareness satellites for Spire Global and NorthStar Earth &amp; Space will be Rocket Lab\u2019s first launch of 2024. Rocket Lab announced Monday it plans to launch the mission no earlier than Jan. 18 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.&nbsp; These satellites will be the first of NorthStar\u2019s space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52052,"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-52051","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\/52051"}],"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=52051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}