Electron • ‘Daughter of the Stars’

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched two satellites on a dedicated mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). This was the first flight for a new European satellite navigation system calls Celeste LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Position, Navigation, and Timing). This will ultimately be an 11-satellite constellation designed to understand how a low Earth orbit satellite fleet can mesh with other PNT assets in space, like Galileo, EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), and other GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) constellations to improve resilience and optimize services. These first two satellites, IOD-1 and IOD-2, will be deployed into a 510km circular orbit. Delayed from March 24 & 25.