[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> <span class="no-hover">[[Launches]]</span> <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> 074 - The Nation God Navigates >[!success] Mission Success "The Nation God Navigates” launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 19:51 UTC on November 5, 2025, deploying QPS-SAR-14, nicknamed YACHIHOKO-I for the Japanese god of nation-building, to a 575km circular Earth orbit. This satellite joins the rest of the QPS-SAR constellation in providing high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and Earth monitoring services globally. iQPS aims to build a constellation of 36 SAR satellites that will provide near-real-time images of Earth every 10 minutes. "The Nation God Navigates" was the sixth mission deployed on Electron for iQPS, making Rocket Lab the go-to provider for their constellation. | **Mission Name** | The Nation God Navigates | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Launch Date** | 2025-11-05 19:51 UTC | | **Outcome** | ✅ Success | | **Customer** | [[iQPS]] | | **Location** | [[Launch Complex 1#Launch Pad B]] | | **Vehicle** | [[Electron]] | | **Orbit Type** | [[Orbits#LEO]] | | **Target Orbit** | 575 km \| 42° | | Achieved Orbit | 568 x 582 km \| 42.00° | | **Payload Mass** | 100 kg | | **Recovery** | No Attempt Likely | | **Mission Link** | [The Nation God Navigates](https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/missions-launched/the-nation-god-navigates/) | | **Press Kit** | [Press Kit PDF](https://rocketlabcorp.com/assets/Uploads/RL-F74-The-Nation-God-Navigates-Presskit.pdf) | ![[Pasted image 20251022230017.png|300]] ## Payload x1 [[iQPS#QPS-SAR|QPS-SAR]] ![[iQPS#QPS-SAR]] ## Launch Video  🔗 Backup Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/BM8OCzwJtMg ## News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(mission, [[]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | [[News/Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Sixth Earth-Imaging Satellite for iQPS.md\|Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Sixth Earth-Imaging Satellite for iQPS]] | November 05, 2025 | | [[News/Rocket Lab Schedules Next Electron Launch, Sixth Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS.md\|Rocket Lab Schedules Next Electron Launch, Sixth Mission for Constellation Operator iQPS]] | October 20, 2025 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%