Rocket Lab
Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
SUCCESS
✓ Mission success
On 23 APR · 03:09 UTC 2026, Electron delivered Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare) to Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
- T-0 (flown)
- 23 APR · 03:09 UTC
- Window
- Instantaneous
- Rocket
- Electron
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission
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