{"id":58753,"date":"2020-10-28T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-mission-launches-satellites-for-planet-canon-electronics\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:36:05","slug":"rocket-lab-mission-launches-satellites-for-planet-canon-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-mission-launches-satellites-for-planet-canon-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Mission Launches Satellites for Planet, Canon Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A <b>Rocket Lab<\/b> Electron vehicle lifted satellites for <strong>Planet<\/strong> and<strong> Canon Electronics<\/strong> to orbit on Wednesday. In the mission dubbed \u201cIn Focus,\u201d Electron took off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 5:21 p.m. ET. The Kick Stage successfully separated from Electron about nine minutes after liftoff. Rocket Lab confirmed payload deployment about an hour after liftoff. The launch took place after a scrub on on Oct. 21 to assess sensor data.<\/p>\n<p>The mission carried a total of 10 satellites, nine Planet SuperDove satellites, and Canon\u2019s CE-SAT-IIB satellite. These are the same type of satellites Rocket Lab lost during the July 4 mission \u201cPics Or It Didn\u2019t Happen\u201d failed when the Electron vehicle experienced an anomaly after stage separation. Five SuperDoves were lost, along with Canon\u2019s CE-SAT-IB. That mission also lost the Faraday-1 satellite for U.K. space startup <b>In-Space<\/b>. CEO Doug Liddle recently told <i>Via Satellite<\/i> that In-Space is working to rebuild Faraday-1, which will be called Faraday-Phoenix. Liddle said it is set to launch on a <b>SpaceX<\/b> Falcon 9 next June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 10 satellites were deployed Wednesday to a 500 km morning-crossing Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Planet\u2019s nine SuperDove\u2019s will join 26 SuperDoves, Flock 4v, that were launched in September on <b>Arianespace<\/b>\u2019s VV16 SSMS-POC flight. <\/p>\n<p>Canon\u2019s CE-SAT-IIB is a technical demonstration microsatellite. It has a middle-size telescope equipped with an ultra-high sensitivity camera to take night images of the Earth and small size telescopes which are suitable for CubeSat use. The Canon payload was a rideshare arranged by <b>Spaceflight Inc.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Planet on the addition of their latest SuperDoves to their constellation and to the team at Canon Electronics on the deployment of their latest tech demonstration satellite,\u201d Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck said after the launch. \u201cElectron has once again delivered a smooth ride to orbit and precise deployment for our individual rideshare customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rocket Lab Electron vehicle lifted satellites for Planet and Canon Electronics to orbit on Wednesday. In the mission dubbed \u201cIn Focus,\u201d Electron took off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 5:21 p.m. ET. The Kick Stage successfully separated from Electron about nine minutes after liftoff. Rocket Lab confirmed payload deployment about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58754,"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-58753","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\/58753"}],"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=58753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}