{"id":801405,"date":"2026-03-28T05:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801405"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:25:28","slug":"liftoff-for-celeste-on-rocket-labs-electron-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801405","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab&#8217;s Electron rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The first two Celeste satellites lifting off from\u00a0Rocket Lab&#8217;s M\u0101hia Launch Complex in New Zealand on an Electron rocket.\u00a0<\/p>\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:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/03\/Liftoff_for_Celeste_on_Rocket_Lab_s_Electron_rocket?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two Celeste satellites lifting off from\u00a0Rocket Lab&#8217;s M\u0101hia Launch Complex in New Zealand on an Electron rocket.\u00a0 Celeste is ESA\u2019s in-orbit demonstrator mission designed to test novel satellite&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801405","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\/801405","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=801405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}