{"id":76770,"date":"2014-07-29T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-electron-smallsat-launcher-first-30-launches-booked\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:33:02","slug":"rocket-lab-announces-electron-smallsat-launcher-first-30-launches-booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-electron-smallsat-launcher-first-30-launches-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Announces Electron SmallSat Launcher, First 30 Launches Booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-29-2014] <b>Rocket Lab <\/b>revealed plans to build a carbon-composite dedicated small satellite launch vehicle named Electron. Currently under construction in New Zealand, the company anticipates launching payloads of up to 100-kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for less than $5 million. Silicon Valley venture firm <b>Khosla Ventures <\/b>is the principal funder.<\/p>\n<p>The Electron rocket design is for a length of 18-m, a height of 1-m and a weight of more than 10 tons. In 2009 Rocket Lab became the first private company to reach space using its Atea 1 suborbital sounding rocket. According to the company, there are already commitments for the first 30 launches of the Electron rocket. The first launch is scheduled for 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-29-2014] Rocket Lab revealed plans to build a carbon-composite dedicated small satellite launch vehicle named Electron. Currently under construction in New Zealand, the company anticipates launching payloads of up to 100-kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for less than $5 million. Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures is the principal funder. The Electron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60665,"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-76770","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\/76770"}],"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=76770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}