{"id":6828,"date":"2024-06-10T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-set-to-launch-five-iot-satellites-for-kineis-on-50th-electron-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:19:12","slug":"rocket-lab-set-to-launch-five-iot-satellites-for-kineis-on-50th-electron-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-set-to-launch-five-iot-satellites-for-kineis-on-50th-electron-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Set to Launch Five IoT Satellites for Kin\u00e9is on 50th Electron Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rocket_lab_kinesis_cover_638535939168876741.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Rocket Lab Set to Launch Five IoT Satellites for Kin\u00e9is on 50th Electron Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rocket_lab_kinesis_cover_638535939168876741.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rocket_lab_kinesis_cover_638535939168876741.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab USA<strong><\/strong>, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for the Company\u2019s 50th Electron launch. The mission will deploy five Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites for French company <strong><\/strong>Kin\u00e9is<strong><\/strong>. The \u2018<strong>No Time Toulouse<\/strong><strong><\/strong>\u2019 mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a 14-day launch window that opens on June 19th, 2024, NZST.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is the first of five dedicated Electron launches for Kin\u00e9is, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government\u2019s space agency CNES (Centre National d&#8217;\u00c9tudes Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve global IoT connectivity. Kin\u00e9is\u2019 new constellation will connect any object anywhere in the world and guarantee the transmission of targeted and useful data to users, in near-real time, with low energy consumption with more powerful 30kg-class nanosats that integrate IoT technology. The constellation also includes a second mission: a ship-tracking Automatic Identification System (AIS). Once deployed, these technologies will allow Kin\u00e9is to expand across multiple industries and scale from 20,000 devices connected to millions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch industry is not an easy or forgiving one. Making it to your first launch is not a given, so reaching 50 Electron launches is an enormous achievement and a rare feat in the history of spaceflight,\u201d said <strong>Rocket Lab founder and CEO Sir Peter Beck.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m immensely proud of the team for bringing an industry-defining rocket to market, making frequent and reliable dedicated small launch a reality for the first time. We\u2019re excited to launch Kin\u00e9is on this historic mission and grateful for the continued support of all the customers who have flown on Electron since our very first mission in 2017. Thank you for helping us to make Electron one of the most frequently launched rockets of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kin\u00e9is CEO Alexandre Tisserant<\/strong> said: \u201cKin\u00e9is is proud and confident to entrust the deployment of its constellation to Rocket Lab. The Electron launcher meets our technical requirements for the positioning of five nanosatellites for each dedicated launch. Our teams and those of Rocket Lab are well coordinated to ensure the satellite separation phase with the launcher. We are very honoured that this first launch for Kin\u00e9is coincides with Electron&#8217;s 50th flight!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018No Time Toulouse\u2019 launch has been tailored specifically to meet Kin\u00e9is\u2019 mission requirements, giving them greater control over launch schedule, orbit, and deployment parameters than would be possible on a larger rideshare mission. Tailored mission parameters for this launch include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instantaneous launch window,<\/li>\n<li>After the first Curie engine burn to circularize the Kick Stage\u2019s orbit, Curie will ignite again for an eight second burn to set a specific argument of perigee, enabling Kin\u00e9is to deploy five satellites to a precise location for each one of the five launches,<\/li>\n<li>All five satellites will be deployed in a precise sequence in singles and as pairs to build out the constellation exactly as Kin\u00e9is needs it,<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Curie will conduct a perigee lowering burn to reduce the Kick Stage\u2019s orbital lifetime to keep space sustainable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Electron\u2019s 50th launch by the numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018No Time Toulouse\u2019 mission will mark:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50th Electron launch since the Company\u2019s first launch on May 25th, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>499 Rutherford engines sent to space. Each Electron launch features 10 Rutherford engines, including nine on the first stage and a single vacuum optimized Rutherford engine on the second stage. Rocket Lab successfully flew a recovered Rutherford engine in 2023, hence 499 engines rather than 500.<\/li>\n<li>46 missions from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>4 missions from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, USA.<\/li>\n<li>190 satellites launched by Electron.<\/li>\n<li>Eighth Electron mission of 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Click here to learn more about Kineis&#8217; Space IoT Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for the Company\u2019s 50th Electron launch. The mission will deploy five Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites for French company Kin\u00e9is. The \u2018No Time Toulouse\u2019 mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[50,26,51,25,20],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-5g","tag-ground","tag-iot","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828"}],"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=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}