{"id":66265,"date":"2018-01-25T01:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-tested-new-kick-stage-on-latest-electron-rocket-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T01:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:59:28","slug":"rocket-lab-tested-new-kick-stage-on-latest-electron-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-tested-new-kick-stage-on-latest-electron-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Tested New Kick Stage on Latest Electron Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_276544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276544\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-276544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rocket-lab-kick-stage-image.jpg\" alt=\"Kick stage Rocket Lab\" width=\"560\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rocket-lab-kick-stage-image.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rocket-lab-kick-stage-image-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rocket-lab-kick-stage-image-500x400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rocket-lab-kick-stage-image-250x200.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kick stage. Photo: Rocket Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>, whose new Electron launch vehicle recently reached orbit for the first time, revealed Jan. 23 that the rocket included a previously undisclosed kick stage designed to increase orbital options for small satellites. The kick stage is equipped with its own avionics, power and communications systems, and Rocket Lab plans to offer it as an option for future flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the new kick stage, Rocket Lab can execute multiple burns to place numerous payloads into different orbits,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>To minimize space junk, the kick stage is designed to de-orbit after it finishes its mission.<\/p>\n<p>During its Jan. 21 mission, the Electron lifted off from New Zealand and deployed three small satellites: a <strong>Planet<\/strong> Dove Pioneer for Earth imaging, and two <strong>Spire <\/strong>Lemur 2 for weather and ship tracking.<\/p>\n<p>While the rocket\u2019s second stage deployed the Dove, the kick stage coasted for about 40 minutes before firing an engine and placing the Lemur 2 cubesats into their optimal, circularized orbits, Rocket Lab said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Read the full article at Via Satellite\u2019s sister publication Defense Daily &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kick stage. Photo: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab, whose new Electron launch vehicle recently reached orbit for the first time, revealed Jan. 23 that the rocket included a previously undisclosed kick stage designed to increase orbital options for small satellites. The kick stage is equipped with its own avionics, power and communications systems, and Rocket Lab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66266,"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-66265","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\/66265"}],"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=66265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}