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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. 6 of the demonstration payload, as well as as well as 4 cubesats originally planned to ride on the same launch vehicle, are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022. The launch vehicle was switched from Epsilon-S to Rocket Lab's Electron due to continuous testing problems with the Epsilon-S' 2nd stage motor. The original 8 hitch-hiking cubesats will be launched on another Electron rocket later.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Technology
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Electron
Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
- Height
- 18 m
- Diameter
- 1.2 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 80
- First flight
- 2017-05-25
Recorded timing
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Flight timeline
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- T−00:02:00
Startup
- T−00:00:02
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:03
Supersonic
- T+00:01:10
Max-Q
- T+00:02:31
MECO
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- T+00:02:35
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:38
SES
- T+00:03:12
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:29
Battery Hotswap
- T+00:09:05
SECO
- T+00:09:09
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:51:43
Kick Stage Ignition
- T+00:53:54
Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+00:54:44
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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