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Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats

posted by mrpg on Monday December 17 2018, @06:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-prefer-MASA dept.

takyon writes:

Rocket Lab Launches 13 Cubesats on 1st Mission for NASA

Rocket Lab's ramp-up is going well so far. The spaceflight startup launched 13 tiny satellites on its first-ever mission for NASA early this morning (Dec. 16), just a month after acing its first commercial flight.

A Rocket Lab Electron booster lifted off from the company's launch site on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 1:33 a.m. EST today (0633 GMT and 7:33 p.m. local New Zealand time), kicking off the ELaNa-19 mission for NASA. Fifty-three minutes later, all of the payloads had separated from the Electron's "kick stage" and settled successfully into a circular orbit about 310 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth.

Educational Launch of Nanosatellites.

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:31AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:31AM (#775658)

    eradicate worldwide poverty

    Social science has a long way to go to catch up with rocket science in terms of predictable and controllable outcomes.

    solve the upcoming antibiotic failure

    The failure itself is rooted in social problems, this brief 50 year period of "mastery over the microbes" might be destined to wink out just as fast as it winked in if we can't get control over our use of antibiotics.

    create worldwide managed fisheries

    Amen. https://www.half-earthproject.org/ [half-earthproject.org] Massive investment not really needed, massive social change however is essential to success.

    cut energy-based-carbon emissions to zero in 20 years(cows and concrete are followups), with some first world subsidization of the third world getting green energy infrastructure

    That's a lot of specifics for things that are notoriously difficult to quantify on global scale. We need to move in that direction (social/economic problem) quickly (bigger social/economic problem), but even if I were grand emperor of Gaia and everybody did what I said just because I said it, this would be a tough thing to pull off without major ego bruising of today's power elite.

    Maintain and expand status quo good ideas, like national parks and mass transit

    Repeating: https://www.half-earthproject.org/ [half-earthproject.org] and mass transit really only makes sense in dense cities, which, if we pack all the people in half the land area should be a natural outcome.

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