Description : ROCKET LAB 6 Harbinger Satellite

DOD SPACER TEST PROGRAM
Launch Complex 1 - New Zealand
Siège social Huntington Beach

The Harbinger mission features York’s S-class platform utilizing the enhanced power subsystem offering up to 3,000 W peak for payload operations, a field-effect electric propulsion (FEEP) system, and high rate laser communications terminal.

SPARC 1 (Space Plug-and-play Architecture Research Cubesat-1) is a joint US/Sweden military research nanosatellite with the 6U CubeSat form factor, representing culmination of a research activity spanning more than a decade.

It was developed under the broader umbrella of research being done between the US and Sweden in the Nanosatellite And Plug-and-play Architecture or “NAPA” program to pioneer a methodology for creating mission capable 6U spacecraft. The methodology involves interchangeable blackbox (selfdescribing) components, software (middleware and applications), advanced push-button tools supporting accelerated design flows, and elements of ground systems architecture capable of working fluidly with networks of potentially hundreds of these platforms.

The spacecraft design encompasses a blending of technologies and components developed by both countries, with primary payloads of direct interest to each nation. The spacecraft is built to the 6U CubeSat form factor, based on Pumpkin’s SUPERNOVA bus.

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ELECTRON 06 ROCKET LAB · STP-27RD · HARBINGER