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Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

April 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

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April 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC

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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand · -39.2628, 177.8645

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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

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Mission description

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

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Electron

Height

18 m

Diameter

1.2 m

LEO capacity

300 kg

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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. With the Electron launch of 21 January 2018, it became the first private spaceport to host a successful orbital launch.

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Launch success.

April 23, 2026 at 4:05 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Liftoff.

April 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

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April 23, 2026 at 2:44 AM UTC · LL2

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April 22, 2026 at 9:30 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

GO for launch.

April 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin