Rocket Lab will launch an Earth’s observation satellite for the IQPS Japanese company at dawn on Saturday (May 17), and you can see the live action.
An electron rocket is scheduled to take off from the Rocket Lab site in New Zealand on Saturday, a one -hour duration window that opens at 4:15 am
Rocket Lab will be broadcast live launch, starting the transmission 30 minutes before takeoff. You can see it here at Space.com if, as expected, the company makes the transmission aviable.
Rocket Lab calls the next mission “The Sea God sees.” That is a reference to the satellite that goes up, which IQPS has nicknamed Wadatsumi-i after an aquatic deity in Japanese mythology.
Wadatsumi-i is a synthetic scope satellite (SAR), so you can imagine the earth at all times of the day and through the cloud cover. If everything is going to plan in “The Sea VE”, the electron will display the spacecraft in a circular orbit of 357 miles high (575 kilometers high) 50.5 minutes after takeoff. The craft will then be the growing constellation of IQPS.
“To date, nine satellites QPS-Sar have been thrown in the leg, and IQPS aims to establish a constellation of 36 satellites,” Rocket Lab wrote in the press kit on the mission, which you can find here.
“This will allow the delivery of a ‘data provisioning service in time close to time’, which allows the observation of specific regions worldwide at an average interval of 10 minutes,” the company added. “This will allow to collect continuous images such as data, and accumulate data not only in ‘stationary objects’ such as land and buildings, but also in ‘moving objects’ such as vehicles, ships and cattle and cattle.”
“The Sea God sees” will be the sixth mission of 2025 and the 64th general flight for the 59 -foot high electron (18 meters high).
It will be the third release of electrons for IQP and the second of the eight missions planned in 2025 and 2026 to build the company’s land observation network, according to Rocket Lab.
