{"id":13919,"date":"2024-04-01T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13919"},"modified":"2024-04-01T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:11:10","slug":"rocket-lab-usa-sets-launch-window-for-next-electron-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13919","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab USA sets launch window for next Electron launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long Beach, California. April 1, 2024.<\/strong> \u2013 Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has set the launch window for its next Electron launch.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Beginning Of The Swarm\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 April 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Electron will carry two satellites for two separate customers: NEONSAT-1, an Earth observation satellite for the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and NASA\u2019s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3).<\/p>\n<p>The primary payload for this mission, NEONSAT-1, is an Earth observation satellite with a high-resolution optical camera designed to monitor for natural disasters along the Korean Peninsula by pairing its images with artificial intelligence. NEONSAT-1 is the first satellite developed under the NEONSAT program by SaTReC and KAIST, Korea\u2019s leading university in science and technology, which developed and operated Korea\u2019s very first satellite KITSAT-1 more than 30 years ago. Other NEONSAT satellites are planned to be launched in 2026 and 2027 to build out the NEONSAT constellation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\" style=\"top: 209.328125px; left: 526.609375px;\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach, California. April 1, 2024. \u2013 Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has set the launch window for its next Electron launch. The \u2018Beginning Of The Swarm\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":13920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13921,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions\/13921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}