
Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
Launch Provider
Rocket Lab
Countdown to Liftoff
What to Expect
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
Mission Type: Satellite
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Rocket Specifications
Height
18m
Weight
13 kg
Payload
300 kg to LEO
Cost
$6,000,000
Launch Details
Launch Date
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Launch Time
8:00 PM EDT
Launch Site
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket
Electron
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