[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> <span class="no-hover">[[Launches]]</span> <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Raise and Shine >[!success] Mission Success "RAISE And Shine" was the first of two dedicated Electron launches with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ([[JAXA]]). "RAISE And Shine" successfully launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on December 14th, 2025 NZT. This mission deployed the Agency's RApid Innovative payload demonstration SatellitE-4 (RAISE-4) spacecraft, a single satellite that will demonstrate eight technologies developed by private companies, universities, and research institutions throughout Japan. The mission was Rocket Lab's first dedicated Electron launch directly contracted with JAXA, emphasizing Electron's importance to reliable global space access for both domestic and allied international space agencies. [📸 Mission Photo Album](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketlab/albums/72177720330921889/) >[!summary] Mission Context On October 12, 2022, JAXA launched the Epsilon-6 rocket carrying RAISE-3 and several other small satellites. Approximately 7 minutes into the flight, a failure occurred in the second stage's Reaction Control System (RCS) ([News Report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSPLGsMTXA8)), preventing the rocket from maintaining the correct attitude for orbit insertion. JAXA was forced to send a destruct command, resulting in the total loss of the [RAISE-3 satellite](https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/raise-3.htm) and all its experimental payloads. > The "Phoenix" Mission Rather than waiting years for the next [Epsilon vehicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_(rocket)) (the under-development Epsilon S), JAXA initiated a recovery plan to re-fly the lost experiments as quickly as possible. They authorized the "Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4" program to rebuild the satellite bus (now RAISE-4) and re-manufacture the lost payloads. | **Mission Name** | Raise and Shine | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Launch Date** | NET 2025-12-14 03:09 UTC | | **Outcome** | ✅ Success | | **Customer** | [[JAXA]] | | **Location** | [[Launch Complex 1#Launch Pad B]] | | **Vehicle** | [[Electron]] | | **Orbit Type** | [[Orbits#SSO]] | | **Target Orbit** | 540 km \| 97.5° | | **Payload Mass** | ~110 kg | | **Recovery** | No Attempt | | **Mission Link** | [Raise and Shine](https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/missions-launched/raise-and-shine/) | | **Press Kit** | [Press Kit PDF](https://rocketlabcorp.com/assets/Uploads/RL-F77-Press-Kit.pdf) | ![[Pasted image 20251124170854.png|300]] ## Payload x1 [[JAXA#RAISE-4]] ![[JAXA#RAISE-4]] ## Launch Video  🔗 Backup Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMP328yoUu4 ### JAXA Stream  🔗 Backup Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvfb0KvU_Y ## News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(mission, [[]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | [[News/Mission Success Rocket Lab Deploys First Dedicated Launch for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).md\|Mission Success Rocket Lab Deploys First Dedicated Launch for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)]] | December 14, 2025 | | [[News/Rocket Lab Schedules First Dedicated Launch for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).md\|Rocket Lab Schedules First Dedicated Launch for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)]] | November 24, 2025 | | [[News/Rocket Lab Secures Multiple Launches with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).md\|Rocket Lab Secures Multiple Launches with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)]] | October 10, 2025 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ---