Rocket Lab has set the launch window for its 53rd Electron launch - the second of five dedicated launches for French company Kinéis.
The "Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Māhia during a 14-day launch window that opens on September 17, 2024.
Kinéis’ constellation will improve global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. Its first launch was three months ago, named “No Time Toulouse”.
Announcing the next mission today, Rocket Lab said the Kinéis’ constellation “will connect any object anywhere in the world and guarantee the transmission of targeted and useful data to users, in near-real time, with low energy consumption with more powerful 30kg-class nanosats that integrate IoT technology”. The constellation also includes a second mission: a ship-tracking Automatic Identification System.
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The company works with the French military (yes, the state-sponsored terrorist organisation employing the DGSE agents that bombed the peaceful protestors in Auckland harbour in 1985).
Kinéis promotional material for an arms show in Paris last year says "The goal is to offer comprehensive, sovereign, and resilient solutions to tackle strategic challenges in high-intensity conflict scenarios."
In 2022 the French ambassador to Haiti at the time told the New York Times how the French military conspired with the US administration to overthrow Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically elected president of Haiti in 2004 after he had called on France to repay US$21billion that was expropriated from the country as the Haiti Independence Debt.
This is the kind of operation Kinéis technology launched from Mahia will be assisting in its commitment to work with the Renseignement d’Intérêt Spatial and "stand alongside the [French] Space Command (CDE)".
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