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Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

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Launch Details

Date: 31 Mar 2026, 12:00 am UTC

Rocket: Electron

Provider: Rocket Lab

Mission

Type: Technology

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Unknown Pad, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Mission Description

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