{"id":3201,"date":"2026-09-10T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:58:46","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-93rd-electron-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/rocket-lab-launches-93rd-electron-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Rocket Lab Launches 93rd Electron Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems successfully launched its Electron rocket to deploy the latest Earth-imaging satellite to space for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018The Lightning God Defends\u2019 mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 1:04 a.m. NZST on August 21, 2026, and deployed the next QPS-SAR satellite in iQPS\u2019 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging constellation to a 575km low Earth orbit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mission Highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Milestone Flight: This mission marked Rocket Lab\u2019s 93rd overall Electron launch and 14th launch of the year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iQPS Partnership: This was the ninth deployment of a QPS-SAR satellite with 100% mission success, reinforcing Electron\u2019s position as the primary launch vehicle for the iQPS constellation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More Missions: With today\u2019s mission complete, nine dedicated launches remain booked on Electron by iQPS to deliver their constellation to space by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,209],"tags":[444,452,323,456,458,459,460,457,451,446,448,449,450,453,447,445,455,454],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-launch","tag-europe-space-news","tag-european-space-industry","tag-european-space-news","tag-european-space-technology","tag-newspace-europe","tag-satellite-news","tag-space-companies-europe","tag-space-exploration-europe","tag-space-industry-europe","tag-space-magazine","tag-space-magazine-europe","tag-space-magazines-europe","tag-space-magazines-germany","tag-space-magazines-italy","tag-space-news","tag-space-news-europe","tag-space-startups-europe","tag-space-technology-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","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=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}