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Rocket Lab is expanding its partnership with iQPS to deliver QPS-SAR satellites to orbit.
Rocket Lab signed an additional contract with iQPS for the launch of three more satellites on Electron.
Rocket Lab has already flown four iQPS missions in 2025, including two missions launched within four weeks between May and June.
The next iQPS launch is slated for November 2025.
iQPS's upcoming Electron manifest includes seven flights, on top of four already booked.
Rocket Lab signed a multi-launch agreement for three dedicated missions with Japan-based Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.
The latest bulk buy brings the total number of upcoming missions for Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. to seven.
Each iQPS mission includes a Motorized Lightband separation system to deploy the latest QPS-SAR to space.
There are another four missions already on Electron’s manifest for Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.
Rocket Lab has successfully launched five missions for Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.
The Motorized Lightband separation system is part of iQPS's vertical integration across launch and space systems.
The Miraikan exhibition includes models of synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites being built by Japanese companies iQPS and Synspective.
Japanese companies iQPS and Synspective are building synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites represented by models in the Miraikan exhibition.
iQPS launched its first small SAR satellite, Izanagi, in December 2019.
The iQPS small SAR satellite has 1 m resolution, operates in X-band, and weighs 100 kg.
Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS) was founded in 2005 by two Emeritus Professors of Kyushu University and a rocket developer to establish the space industry in the Kyushu region of Japan.
iQPS plans to deploy a group of 36 small SAR satellites that together will provide Earth observation data to support tasks such as disaster management and land and infrastructure surveying.
iQPS planned to launch its second small SAR satellite, Izanami, in late 2020.
The Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS) went public in December 2023 to support efforts to deploy a constellation of synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites.
Rocket Lab returned the Electron to flight on 2023-12-14 and successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for the Japanese company iQPS.