{"id":92896,"date":"2019-06-30T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-seventh-electron-rocket-for-make-it-rain-mission"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:03:07","slug":"rocket-lab-successfully-launches-seventh-electron-rocket-for-make-it-rain-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-seventh-electron-rocket-for-make-it-rain-mission","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron rocket for \u2018Make It Rain\u2019 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-seventh-electron-rocket-for-make-it-rain-mission.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Private rocket launch startup <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/rocket-lab\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"rocket-lab\">Rocket Lab<\/a> has succeeded in launching its \u2018Make It Rain\u2019 mission, which took off yesterday from the company\u2019s private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. On board Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket (its seventh to launch so far) were multiple satellites flow for various clients in a rideshare arrangement brokered by Rocket Lab client Spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>Payloads for the launch included a satellite for Spaceflight subsidiary BlackSky, which will join its existing orbital imaging constellation. There was also a CubeSat operated by the Melbourne Space Program, and two Prometheus satellites launched for the U.Special Operations Command.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab had to delay launch a couple of times earlier in the week owing to suboptimal launch conditions, but yesterday\u2019s mission went off without a hitch at 12:30 AM EDT\/4:30 PM NZST. After successfully lifting off and achieving orbit, Rocket Lab\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/electron\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"electron\">Electron<\/a> also deployed all of its payloads to their target orbits as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private rocket launch startup Rocket Lab has succeeded in launching its \u2018Make It Rain\u2019 mission, which took off yesterday from the company\u2019s private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. On board Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket (its seventh to launch so far) were multiple satellites flow for various clients in a rideshare arrangement brokered by Rocket [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92896","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=92896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}