Rocket Lab USA a global leader in launch services and space systems announced its next Electron mission will deploy seven satellites to space and include an attempt to recover the rocket\u2019s booster after launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u2018Baby Come Back\u2019 mission, Rocket Lab\u2019s 39th Electron launch, is scheduled to deploy from Pad A at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a launch window that opens July 14, 2023 UTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rocket Lab is also planning to conduct a marine recovery of Electron\u2019s first stage as part of this mission. Rocket Lab\u2019s recovery team will retrieve Electron using a customized vessel and transport the stage back to Rocket Lab\u2019s production complex for analysis. Data from this recovered stage will inform Rocket Lab\u2019s ongoing recovery and reuse program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u2018Baby Come Back\u2019 mission is a rideshare mission and will carry satellites for multiple customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis mission demonstrates Rocket Lab\u2019s ability to provide responsive space capabilities on accelerated timelines by making access to space possible for customers when they run into roadblocks,\u201d said Rocket Lab Founder & CEO Peter Beck. \u201cElectron is the world\u2019s most reliable small launch vehicle and is demonstrating it can deliver customer\u2019s payloads on their schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Payloads aboard the \u2018Baby Come Back\u2019 mission include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NASA: NASA\u2019s Starling mission is a four CubeSat mission designed to test technologies to enable future \u201cswarm\u201d missions. Spacecraft swarms refer to multiple spacecraft autonomously coordinating their activities to achieve certain goals. Starling will demonstrate technologies for in-space network communications, onboard relative navigation between spacecraft, autonomous maneuver planning and execution, and distributed spacecraft autonomy – an experiment for small spacecraft to autonomously react to observations, paving the way for future science missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Space Flight Laboratory (SFL): Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) selected Rocket Lab to launch Telesat\u2019s LEO 3 demonstration satellite that will provide continuity for customer and ecosystem vendor testing campaigns following the decommissioning of Telesat\u2019s Phase 1 LEO satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spire Global: Spire will launch two 3U satellites carrying Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) payloads to replenish its fully deployed constellation of more than 100 multipurpose satellites. Spire\u2019s satellites observe the Earth in real time using radio frequency technology. The data acquired by Spire\u2019s GNSS-RO payloads provide global weather intelligence that can be assimilated into weather models to improve the accuracy of forecasts. Spire is the largest producer of GNSS-RO weather data, collecting over 20,000 RO profiles a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rocket Lab USA a global leader in launch services and space systems announced its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}