{"id":352825,"date":"2026-03-28T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:25:08","slug":"rocket-lab-carries-out-successful-launch-in-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352825\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab carries out successful launch in Hawke&#8217;s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4KOE7BE_6_photos_added_3_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Rocket Lab\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nIt&#8217;s the first of two spacecraft of a satellite navigation demonstration mission in low Earth orbit.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab has successfully carried out its first dedicated launch on behalf of the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand-US space company&#8217;s 85th launch was carried out from its rocket pad in Hawke&#8217;s Bay on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first of two spacecraft of a satellite navigation demonstration mission in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>An eventual new array of satellites some 500 kilometres above the earth will test next-generation technologies for uses like autonomous vehicles, maritime navigation, wireless networks, emergency services, and critical infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the first of two spacecraft of a satellite navigation demonstration mission in low Earth orbit. Photo: RNZ\/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,147,392],"class_list":["post-352825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}