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Rocket Lab – ‘Bridging The Swarm’ Launch – YouTube
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Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring satellite to orbit today (Dec. 10), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

An Electron<\/a> rocket is scheduled to launch the “Bridging the Swarm” mission from Rocket Lab<\/a>‘s New Zealand site today at 7:45 p.m. EST (0045 GMT and 1:45 p.m. local New Zealand time on Thursday, Dec. 11).<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab will webcast the launch live<\/a> beginning 30 minutes before liftoff. Space.com will carry the stream if the company makes it available, as it usually does.<\/p>\n

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The patch for Rocket Lab’s “Bridging the Swarm” mission. (Image credit: Rocket Lab)<\/p>\n

“Bridging the Swarm” will launch a single satellite<\/a> for the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) \u2014 NEONSAT-1A, an advanced Earth-observation spacecraft designed to monitor natural disasters throughout the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

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KAIST already operates one such satellite \u2014 NEONSAT-1, which flew to orbit on an Electron in April 2024<\/a>. But the goal is to build that fleet out over the next few years, and NEONSAT-1A is part of that vision.<\/p>\n

The new spacecraft “will be deployed to validate KAIST\u2019s advanced satellite’s capability, boost operational utility and pave the way for the single NEONSAT satellite to become a constellation \u2014 thus fulfilling the mission’s name, ‘Bridging the Swarm,'” Rocket Lab wrote in an emailed statement on Tuesday evening (Dec. 9).<\/p>\n

If all goes to plan today, the Electron will deploy NEONSAT-1A into low Earth orbit<\/a>, 336 miles (540 kilometers) above our planet, about 54 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

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Rocket Lab expedited the “Bridging the Swarm” launch, deciding to conduct the mission on a fast timeline, the company announced in Tuesday evening’s statement.<\/p>\n

“This launch rescheduling is a demonstration of Rocket Lab’s operational efficiency, responsiveness, and flexibility to meet the ever-evolving needs of its customers, while continuing to launch more missions every year to support a growing manifest,” Rocket Lab wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab – ‘Bridging The Swarm’ Launch – YouTube Watch On Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-178415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}