{"id":56936,"date":"2021-08-16T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-snags-aurorasat-1-launch-after-operator-switches-providers\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:12:07","slug":"rocket-lab-snags-aurorasat-1-launch-after-operator-switches-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-snags-aurorasat-1-launch-after-operator-switches-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Snags AuroraSat-1 Launch After Operator Switches Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> will launch AuroraSat-1 for Finland\u2019s <strong>Aurora Propulsion Technologie<\/strong>s as part of a rideshare mission scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year, the New Zealand launch service provider announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora originally scheduled the space junk removal test cubesat to ride on <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2018s Falcon 9 rocket and to be deployed by <strong>Momentus<\/strong>\u2018 Vigoride orbital transfer tug, but switched providers after Momentus pushed back plans for Vigoride\u2019s debut flight to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of its agreement with Rocket Lab, AuroraSat will send the 1.5U cubesat on an Electron rocket carrying other satellites, including including the first ever wooden satellite, WISA Woodsat, developed by Finnish company <strong>Arctic Astronautics<\/strong>. The rocket will liftoff from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula and carry AuroraSat-1 to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p>Aurora CEO Roope Takala said that the company selected Rocket Lab because of its \u201crapid and streamlined space access, combined with the ability of Electron\u2019s Kick Stage to precisely deliver payloads to their unique orbits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter earlier launch plans fell through, we greatly value Rocket Lab\u2019s ability to offer a launch in a flight window starting just three months from our originally planned launch date,\u201d Takala said in a statement. \u201cThe quick response Rocket Lab offered allows us to space prove our technologies this year and keep on track with our development plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the demonstration, Aurora will validate the spacecraft\u2019s water-based propellant and mobility control of its \u201cResistojets,\u201d which are designed to assist cubesats with detumbling capabilities and propulsion-based attitude control. Aurora will also test the satellite\u2019s deployable plasma brakes, which combine a micro-tether with charged particles in space, or ionospheric plasma, to generate significant amounts of drag to deorbit the spacecraft safely at the end of its life.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab said that the AuroraSat-1 launch will follow three back-to-back Electron launches in August and September for <strong>BlackSky Global<\/strong>, and the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon in support of <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Artemis program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab will launch AuroraSat-1 for Finland\u2019s Aurora Propulsion Technologies as part of a rideshare mission scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year, the New Zealand launch service provider announced Monday. Aurora originally scheduled the space junk removal test cubesat to ride on SpaceX\u2018s Falcon 9 rocket and to be deployed by Momentus\u2018 Vigoride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56937,"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-56936","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\/56936"}],"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=56936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}