Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket Lab's 87th launch · 8th this year · humanity's 7,266th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 23, 03:09 – Apr 23, 03:09 UTC
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Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size. The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures. The 8 satellites are: * MAGNARO-II * KOSEN-2R * WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II * FSI-SAT2 * OrigamiSat-2 * Mono-Nikko * ARICA-2 * PRELUDE
Technology · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/23/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/23/2026 · source
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
LL2 · 4/23/2026 · source
Launch pad assigned.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/22/2026 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/15/2026 · source
NET April 23.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/18/2026 · source
NET Q1 2026.
Cosmic_Penguin · 10/10/2025 · source
Adding launch
Nosu · 10/10/2025 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Local pad time: Apr 23, 3:09 PM GMT+12
41 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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