{"id":85759,"date":"2018-12-12T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/watch-rocket-lab-launch-a-cubesat-fleet-for-nasa-tonight"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:02:22","slug":"watch-rocket-lab-launch-a-cubesat-fleet-for-nasa-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/watch-rocket-lab-launch-a-cubesat-fleet-for-nasa-tonight","title":{"rendered":"Watch Rocket Lab Launch a Cubesat Fleet for NASA Tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-rocket-lab-launch-a-cubesat-fleet-for-nasa-tonight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California-based startup Rocket Lab will launch 10 tiny satellites into orbit for NASA tonight, and you can watch it all live online.<\/p>\n<p>A Rocket Lab Electron booster is scheduled to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42652-rocket-lab-nasa-cubesat-launch.html\">NASA\u2019s ElaNa-19 mission<\/a> from the company\u2019s private Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand\u2019s North Island. Liftoff is scheduled for 11:07 p.m. EST (0407 Dec. 13 GMT) during a 4-hour launch window that closes at 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT). You can<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketlabusa.com\/live-stream\">watch live via Rocket Lab\u2019s website<\/a>, beginning about 20 minutes before liftoff. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html\">watch the launch here on <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/a>, courtesy of Rocket Lab. Bad weather may be a concern for the launch, company officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s launch will mark Rocket Lab\u2019s first flight for NASA and the fourth orbital flight of the company\u2019s Electron booster over all. After two test flights (nicknamed \u201cThis Is A Test\u201d and \u201cStill Testing\u201d), the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42411-rocket-lab-launches-first-commercial-mission.html\">successfully launched its first commercial mission<\/a> (dubbed \u201cIt\u2019s Business Time\u201d) last month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42713-watch-rocket-lab-nasa-cubesat-launch-webcast.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42713-watch-rocket-lab-nasa-cubesat-launch-webcast.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California-based startup Rocket Lab will launch 10 tiny satellites into orbit for NASA tonight, and you can watch it all live online. A Rocket Lab Electron booster is scheduled to launch NASA\u2019s ElaNa-19 mission from the company\u2019s private Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand\u2019s North Island. Liftoff is scheduled for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759","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=85759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}