{"id":59454,"date":"2020-07-05T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-fails-mission-loses-payloads-for-canon-planet\/"},"modified":"2020-07-05T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:13:18","slug":"rocket-lab-fails-mission-loses-payloads-for-canon-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-fails-mission-loses-payloads-for-canon-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Fails Mission, Loses Payloads for Canon, Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cPics Or It Didn\u2019t Happen\u201d mission on July 4 failed when the Electron vehicle experienced an anomaly after stage separation. The vehicle was lost, and payloads for <b>Canon Electronics Inc.<\/b>, <b>Planet<\/b>, and <b>Inspace<\/b> were not delivered to orbit. The issue occurred approximately four minutes into the flight after the Electron rocket took off from Rocket Lab\u2019s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 21:19 UTC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was a pretty tough day,\u201d Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said in a video message shared on social media. \u201cTo our customers, we are deeply sorry for the loss of those payloads. Believe me, we feel and we share your disappointment. However, we will leave no stone unturned to figure out exactly what happened today so that we can learn from it and get back to the pad safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab said the Electron rocket remained within the predicted launch corridors and did not harm any personnel or the launch site. The launcher is working closely with the<strong> FAA<\/strong> to investigate the anomaly and identify its cause to correct the issue to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>The launcher also said more than eight Electron vehicles in production, and Rocket Lab is \u201cready for a rapid return to flight as soon as investigations are complete and any required corrective actions are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s issue is a reminder that spaceflight can be very unforgiving. It\u2019s certainly a day we never wanted to experience, but one we had prepared for,\u201d Beck said in the video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was Rocket Lab\u2019s 13th Electron launch and the launcher\u2019s second mission after its launch complex was shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions. There was a 21-day turnover between the last mission, \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s \u201cPics Or It Didn\u2019t Happen\u201d mission on July 4 failed when the Electron vehicle experienced an anomaly after stage separation. The vehicle was lost, and payloads for Canon Electronics Inc., Planet, and Inspace were not delivered to orbit. The issue occurred approximately four minutes into the flight after the Electron rocket took off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59289,"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-59454","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\/59454"}],"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=59454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}