Orbica
UpcomingTimelineAgenciesRocketsSatellitesTrackIntel
← 2026

2026 · Rocket Lab

Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

successElectron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

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

Overview

Date / time
April 23, 2026 at 03:09 AM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Mission
Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
Mission type
Technology
Orbit achieved
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Launch vehicle
Electron →
Launch provider
Rocket Lab →

Payloads deployed · 8

ARICA-2
LEO
FSI-SAT2
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT B
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT C
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT H
LEO
MAGNARO-II
LEO
ORIGAMISAT-2
LEO
WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II
LEO