{"id":178559,"date":"2023-12-18T00:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/electron-returns-to-flight-with-successful-launch-of-japanese-radar-imaging-satellite"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:22:59","slug":"electron-returns-to-flight-with-successful-launch-of-japanese-radar-imaging-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/electron-returns-to-flight-with-successful-launch-of-japanese-radar-imaging-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Electron returns to flight with successful launch of Japanese radar imaging satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-returns-to-flight-with-successful-launch-of-japanese-radar-imaging-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite on the first flight of its Electron rocket since a failure nearly three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Electron rocket lifted off from the company\u2019s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. Eastern Dec. 14. The vehicle deployed its payload, the QPS-SAR-5 or Tsukuyomi-1 satellite for Japanese company iQPS, nearly 57 minutes after liftoff into a 575-kilometer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the first for Electron since a Sept. 19 failure during <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/electron-fails-during-capella-space-launch\/\">a launch of another radar imaging satellite for Capella Space<\/a>. On that mission, the first stage performed as expected but the engine of the second stage appeared to shut down immediately after ignition, preventing it from reaching orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite on the first flight of its Electron rocket since a failure nearly three months ago. The Electron rocket lifted off from the company\u2019s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. Eastern Dec. 14. The vehicle deployed its payload, the QPS-SAR-5 or Tsukuyomi-1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178559","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}