![]() ![]() Hitching a ride on the Kick Stage will be gaming company Valve’s Gnome Chompski, in 150mm 3D printed titanium form. The payload also includes a pair of maritime surveillance satellites and 24 SpaceBEE spacecraft to add to a constellation that is designed to provide satellite communications to IoT devices in remote locations. ![]() The expectation is that the tethered cubesat will re-enter the atmosphere within weeks while the other will linger in orbit for years. The spacecraft are destined for a Sun-synchronous orbit at 500km altitude and come from a variety of customers in the US, France, and New Zealand.Īs well as the first student-built satellite from New Zealand (the APSS-1 satellite for the Auckland Space Institute at The University of Auckland), the payload also includes an intriguing tech demo from TriSept in the form of the DragRacer experiment.ĭragRacer will see two identical cubesats ejected, one with a tether drag device (consisting of a 70-metre length of Terminator Tape) and one without. Rocket Lab has launched 65 satellites so far and plans to notch up another 30 in what the company calls its “most diverse” mission yet. The payload will include a statue of Gnome Chompski*, presumably in an attempt to unlock hitherto unknown Half-Life achievements. Rocket Lab is planning a 30-satellite launch via its 16th Electron launch from New Zealand. ![]()
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