{"id":63413,"date":"2018-12-17T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-nasa-cubesats-to-orbit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:23:09","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-nasa-cubesats-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-nasa-cubesats-to-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Launches NASA Cubesats to Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> launched its third orbital mission of 2018, successfully deploying satellites to orbit for <strong>NASA<\/strong>. The mission, designated Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19 , took place just over a month after Rocket Lab\u2019s last successful orbital launch. Rocket Lab has launched a total of 24 satellites to orbit in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch vehicle successfully lifted off at 6:33 UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101hia Peninsula on Sunday, Dec. 16. After being launched to an elliptical orbit, Electron\u2019s Curie engine-powered kick stage separated from the vehicle\u2019s second stage, before circularizing to a 500 by 500 kilometer orbit at an 85 degree inclination. By 56 minutes into the mission, the 13 satellites on board were individually deployed to their designated orbits.<\/p>\n<p>This mission, awarded under a Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) Agreement, marks the first time NASA cubesats received a dedicated ride to orbit on a commercial launch vehicle. VCLS is managed by NASA\u2019s Launch Services Program headquartered at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rocket Lab founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Peter Beck said that the ELaNa-19 mission represents a forward-thinking approach from NASA to acquiring launch services and recognizes the increasingly significant role small satellites are playing in exploration, technology demonstration, research and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab launched its third orbital mission of 2018, successfully deploying satellites to orbit for NASA. The mission, designated Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19 , took place just over a month after Rocket Lab\u2019s last successful orbital launch. Rocket Lab has launched a total of 24 satellites to orbit in 2018. Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63414,"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-63413","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\/63413"}],"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=63413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}