🔴 EN DIRECT LANCEMENT ROCKET LAB - La nation que Dieu guide ( Electron - Lancement spatial FR)

Video from the channel UFOTINIK about Electron, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 45:54. Language: French. Video type: Livestream.

Live stream in French from the UFOTINIK channel, following the official Rocket Lab feed of an Electron launch on the "The Nation God Navigates" mission. The payload is Yachihoko-I (QPS-SAR-14), a Japanese Earth-observation satellite with synthetic-aperture radar, built by iQPS. Liftoff was scheduled for 20:51 Paris time from Pad LC-1B on the Māhia peninsula (New Zealand), bound for a 575 km low orbit.

Before liftoff, the host explains that the radar can take images day and night and through clouds, thanks to a deployable, light and compact antenna. iQPS, founded in 2005 in Kyushu, aims to build a constellation of 36 satellites able to revisit the same point every 10 minutes; its first satellite, Izanagi, flew in 2019 on a PSLV, and the company has booked eight launches with Rocket Lab. On the Electron, he recalls its 18 m height, 1.2 m diameter and about 13 t at liftoff, the carbon-composite structure, the RP-1 kerosene with liquid oxygen, the nine Rutherford engines on the first stage, the vacuum-optimized Rutherford on the second, and the Photon kick stage with its Curie engine.

The rocket lifts off on time, goes supersonic and passes through Max-Q. First-stage cutoff follows, then stage separation and second-stage ignition, captured by an onboard microphone picking up the sound of its electric pumps. The fairing is jettisoned at about 142 km altitude. The cameras then show the jettison of the second stage's first battery pack, and the vehicle reaches about 17,500 km/h at 253 km. The second stage releases the Photon into an elliptical orbit, and the host explains it will fire its engine at apogee to circularize it.

The kick stage separation is confirmed live. About 40 minutes of coasting and a roughly 3-minute circularization burn remain before satellite deployment, which is neither shown nor confirmed during the broadcast. The rest of the stream is a round of chat questions on other topics, such as Rocket Lab's future Neutron rocket.