[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> <span class="no-hover">[[Launches]]</span> <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> 069 - The Harvest Goddess Thrives >[!success] Mission Success ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’ was the fifth mission on Electron for multi-launch customer Japan-based Earth imaging company, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. ([[iQPS]]). The mission deployed [[iQPS#QPS-SAR|QPS-SAR-12]], nicknamed KUSHINADA-I for the Japanese goddess of harvest and prosperity, to a 575km circular Earth orbit to join the rest of the QPS-SAR constellation in providing high resolution synthetic aperture radar images and Earth monitoring services globally. [📸 Mission Photo Album](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketlab/albums/72177720328159446/) | **Mission Name** | The Harvest Goddess Thrives | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Launch Date** | 2025-08-05 04:10 UTC | | **Outcome** | ✅ Success | | **Customer** | [[iQPS]] | | **Contract** | [[iQPS Four Launch Contract 2024]] | | **Location** | [[Launch Complex 1#Launch Pad B]] | | **Vehicle** | [[Electron]] | | **Orbit Type** | [[🌍 Orbits#LEO]] | | **Target Orbit** | 575 km \| 42° | | **Payload Mass** | 100 kg | | **Recovery** | No Attempt | | **Mission Link** | [The Harvest Goddess Thrives](https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/missions-launched/the-harvest-goddess-thrives-2/) | | **Press Kit** | [Press Kit PDF](https://rocketlabcorp.com/assets/Uploads/F70-The-Harvest-Goddess-Thrives-Presskit.pdf) | ![[Pasted image 20250803000345.png|300]] ## Payload x 1 [[iQPS#🛰️ Space Systems#QPS-SAR|QPS-SAR]] ![[iQPS#QPS-SAR]] ## Contract This is the **fourth** and **final** launch in a [[iQPS Four Launch Contract 2024|Four Launch Contract]] signed in 2024. ## Launch Video  🔗 Backup Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LAy4XiKNvQ ## News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(mission, [[]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------- | | [[News/Mission Success for Rocket Lab’s Latest Constellation Deployment Launch for iQPS.md\|Mission Success for Rocket Lab’s Latest Constellation Deployment Launch for iQPS]] | August 05, 2025 | | [[News/Rocket Lab Schedules Fifth Electron Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS.md\|Rocket Lab Schedules Fifth Electron Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS]] | July 31, 2025 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% 🔗 [SatNews.com - Rocket Lab’s successful launch from New Zealand of iQPS’ ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’](https://news.satnews.com/2025/08/05/rocket-labs-successful-launch-from-new-zealand-of-iqps-the-harvest-goddess-thrives/) 🔗 [Space.com - Rocket Lab launches private Japanese radar satellite to orbit from New Zealand (video)](https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/rocket-lab-launch-private-japanese-radar-satellite-iqps-harvest-god-thrives) ---