{"id":98184,"date":"2019-11-05T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/spaceflight-and-rocket-lab-will-put-a-japanese-shooting-star-satellite-into-orbit"},"modified":"2019-11-05T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:42:49","slug":"spaceflight-and-rocket-lab-will-put-a-japanese-shooting-star-satellite-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/spaceflight-and-rocket-lab-will-put-a-japanese-shooting-star-satellite-into-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight and Rocket Lab will put a Japanese shooting-star satellite into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHvyz3h-rRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflight.com\/\">Spaceflight<\/a> says it\u2019s handling the pre-launch logistics for a Japanese satellite that\u2019s designed to spray artificial shooting stars into the sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/star-ale.com\/en\/\">Tokyo-based ALE\u2019s<\/a> spacecraft is just one of seven satellites due to be sent into orbit from New Zealand as early as Nov. 25, aboard a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketlabusa.com\">Rocket Lab<\/a> Electron launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be the 10th Electron launch, earning the nickname \u201cRunning Out of Fingers.\u201d It\u2019ll also be the first launch to test the guidance and navigation hardware as well as the sensors that Rocket Lab will eventually use to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/rocket-lab-will-try-helicopter-recovery-rocket-booster-ceo-will-eat-hat\/\">help make the Electron\u2019s first stage recoverable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based Spaceflight says it\u2019s handling the pre-launch logistics for a Japanese satellite that\u2019s designed to spray artificial shooting stars into the sky. Tokyo-based ALE\u2019s spacecraft is just one of seven satellites due to be sent into orbit from New Zealand as early as Nov. 25, aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. It\u2019ll be the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98184","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=98184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}