{"id":5272,"date":"2025-05-23T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-schedules-upcoming-launch-in-ongoing-mission-series-with-blacksky\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:46:11","slug":"rocket-lab-schedules-upcoming-launch-in-ongoing-mission-series-with-blacksky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-schedules-upcoming-launch-in-ongoing-mission-series-with-blacksky\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Schedules Upcoming Launch in Ongoing Mission Series with BlackSky"},"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\/rocket_black_cover_638835789850529526.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Rocket Lab Schedules Upcoming Launch in Ongoing Mission Series with BlackSky\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rocket_black_cover_638835789850529526.png\" style=\"opacity: 0;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rocket_black_cover_638835789850529526.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab USA<\/strong>, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its next mission for real-time space-based intelligence company <strong>BlackSky<\/strong>. The mission, named \u201cFull Stream Ahead\u201d, will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on May 28th, 2025 UTC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission will launch the next of BlackSky\u2019s Gen-3 satellites to a mid-inclination circular 470km orbit, where it will join the remainder of the company\u2019s constellation delivering very high-resolution imagery and AI-enabled analytics for daily intelligence operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Commercial Satellite Imagery: Quality Characteristics Guide<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFull Stream Ahead\u201d is the second in a series of four Electron launches booked by BlackSky to deploy its Gen-3 satellites to orbit this year, and the tenth overall launch for the company making Electron the most prolific launcher for their constellation to date.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s launch for BlackSky will be the seventh Electron mission of 2025, its 65th launch overall, and will bring the total number of satellites delivered to space by Rocket Lab to 226.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its next mission for real-time space-based intelligence company BlackSky. The mission, named \u201cFull Stream Ahead\u201d, will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on May 28th, 2025 UTC.&nbsp; The [&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":[26,25,54,20],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-platforms","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272"}],"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=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}