{"id":164612,"date":"2023-05-27T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/rocket-labs-electron-delivers-tropics-constellation-to-orbit"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:23:04","slug":"rocket-labs-electron-delivers-tropics-constellation-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/rocket-labs-electron-delivers-tropics-constellation-to-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron delivers TROPICS constellation to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-labs-electron-delivers-tropics-constellation-to-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electron, Rocket Lab\u2019s small satellite launch vehicle, launched twice, just ~2 weeks apart from the companies Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand to deliver the 4 CubeSat constellation to orbit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Payload deployment confirmed! Congratulations to the launch team on our 37th Electron launch, and to our mission partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA_LSP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA_LSP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAAmes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAAmes<\/a>: the TROPICS constellation is officially on orbit! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\/status\/1661957679500398594\/video\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/xAy7ltg7m1\">pic.twitter.com\/xAy7ltg7m1<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two missions, dubbed \u2018Rocket Like a Hurricane\u2019 and \u2018Coming to a Storm Near You,\u2019 contain two 11.8-lb (5.34 kg) CubeSats each delivered to a 30-degree orbital inclination in order for the constellation to monitor tropical systems forming in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and will be capable of performing scans about once every hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electron, Rocket Lab\u2019s small satellite launch vehicle, launched twice, just ~2 weeks apart from the companies Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand to deliver the 4 CubeSat constellation to orbit. Payload deployment confirmed! Congratulations to the launch team on our 37th Electron launch, and to our mission partners at @NASA @NASA_LSP @NASAAmes: the TROPICS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}