{"id":801225,"date":"2026-03-18T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801225"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:37:30","slug":"integration-of-celeste-in-orbit-demonstration-cubesats-at-rocket-labs-mahia-launch-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801225","title":{"rendered":"Integration of Celeste In-Orbit Demonstration CubeSats at Rocket Lab\u2019s M\u0101hia Launch Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Celeste is ESA\u2019s in-orbit demonstrator mission designed to test novel satellite navigation concepts for resilient positioning and timing services.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will begin with two demonstrator satellites, IOD1-2, to secure and test the assigned frequency filings and transmit representative navigation signals until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The two satellites consist of two CubeSats (12U and 16U respectively), both developed by two consortia composed by a wide set of European players, one led by GMV (Spain) and the other led by Thales Alenia Space (France).<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Celeste: <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/03\/Integration_of_Celeste_In-Orbit_Demonstration_CubeSats_at_Rocket_Lab_s_Mahia_Launch_Complex2?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celeste is ESA\u2019s in-orbit demonstrator mission designed to test novel satellite navigation concepts for resilient positioning and timing services. The mission will begin with two demonstrator satellites, IOD1-2, to secure&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}