{"id":8214,"date":"2023-09-11T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-launch-window-for-capella-spaces-upcoming-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:55:08","slug":"rocket-lab-announces-launch-window-for-capella-spaces-upcoming-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-announces-launch-window-for-capella-spaces-upcoming-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Announces Launch Window for Capella Space&#8217;s Upcoming 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\/rl_C_638300149041330378.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Rocket Lab Announces Launch Window for Capella Space's Upcoming Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rl_C_638300149041330378.jpg\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/rl_C_638300149041330378.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, announced it has scheduled its next Electron launch during a window that opens September 19, 2023, NZST\/UTC. The \u2018We Will Never Desert You\u2019 mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula for American space tech company Capella Space, a provider of commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We Will Never Desert You\u2019 will launch the second of Capella\u2019s third-generation SAR Acadia satellites to low Earth orbit. This will be Rocket Lab\u2019s third launch for Capella in 2023, and the second launch in a multi-launch contract of four missions. Capella\u2019s highest quality, high-resolution SAR imagery penetrates all weather conditions and captures clear imagery 24\/7, day and night, anywhere on Earth, delivered through a fully automated ordering and delivery platform. Capella\u2019s existing SAR capabilities include long-dwell imaging and extended duty-cycle \u2013 which results in more images collected per orbit than any other SAR systems. Acadia will augment Capella\u2019s existing constellation with increased bandwidth and power, faster downlink speeds, and reduced latency.<\/p>\n<p>As Capella\u2019s sole launch provider in 2023 to build out the company\u2019s Earth-imaging constellation, Rocket Lab\u2019s most recent launch, \u2018We Love The Nightlife&#8217;, successfully deployed Capella\u2019s first Acadia satellite to space just weeks ago on August 24, 2023. An earlier mission for Capella this year, \u2018Stronger Together\u2019, successfully delivered two satellites to space for the company from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia, in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Electron\u2019s precise payload deployment record and ability to meet wide-ranging mission requirements enables operators like Capella to increase their constellation\u2019s orbital diversity while at the same time growing quickly to meet customer demand. Rocket Lab is also supplying its own separation systems for each Capella mission that further maintains the Company\u2019s vertical integration strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck<\/strong>, said: \u201cAs the only commercial U.S. small launch vehicle providing regular and reliable dedicated access to orbit, Electron provides a unique service to satellite operators like Capella. When you\u2019re a dedicated launch customer you can fly where you want and when you want to, and launching these two missions back-to-back for Capella demonstrates the value that brings to commercial constellation operators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>We Will Never Desert You<\/strong><strong>\u2019 launch details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch window: NET September 19, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Launch location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia.<\/li>\n<li>Launch Vehicle: Electron.<\/li>\n<li>Satellite Operator: Capella Space.<\/li>\n<li>Payload: SAR Earth-imaging Acadia satellite.<\/li>\n<li>Orbital Destination: 640km circular Earth orbit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, announced it has scheduled its next Electron launch during a window that opens September 19, 2023, NZST\/UTC. The \u2018We Will Never Desert You\u2019 mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula for American space tech company Capella Space, [&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":[25,20,24,70],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-bus-platforms","tag-separation-systems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214"}],"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=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}