{"id":62260,"date":"2019-06-13T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflights-1st-rocket-lab-launch-readies\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:32:34","slug":"spaceflights-1st-rocket-lab-launch-readies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflights-1st-rocket-lab-launch-readies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight\u2019s 1st Rocket Lab Launch Readies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaceflight<\/strong> will launch seven spacecraft from five organizations later this month on <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>\u2019s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 at the southern tip of Mahia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island. This mission, also called \u201cMake It Rain\u201d by Rocket Lab as a nod to the weather in both Seattle and New Zealand, represents Spaceflight\u2019s first of five launches scheduled with Rocket Lab this year.<\/p>\n<p>Satellites on the mission include BlackSky\u2019s Global-3, two U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Prometheus, Melbourne Space Program\u2019s ACRUX-1, two Swarm SpaceBEEs, and an undisclosed customer. Spaceflight managed the procurement, integration, and mission management services for all the customers manifested on the Electron. The cubesats were processed and integrated in Spaceflight\u2019s Auburn, Wash.-based facility while BlackSky shipped its microsat directly to the Rocket Lab facility in New Zealand for its final integration by the Spaceflight team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to not only our inaugural flight with Rocket Lab, but a long-term partnership to increase access to space via frequent launches,\u201d said Curt Blake, CEO of Spaceflight. \u201cHaving the Electron in our arsenal of small launch vehicles provides our customers with a low-cost, flexible option to get on orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceflight will launch seven spacecraft from five organizations later this month on Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 at the southern tip of Mahia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island. This mission, also called \u201cMake It Rain\u201d by Rocket Lab as a nod to the weather in both Seattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62262,"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-62260","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\/62260"}],"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=62260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}