Photon First Light

Launched as a technology demonstration first light builds upon the existing capabilities of the electron launch vehicle s kick stage with additional subsystems to enable long duration.

Photon first light.

Rocket lab just launched its first photon satellite. The satellite named first light is the first spacecraft from rocket lab s family of configurable photon satellites to be deployed to orbit. The photon is a type of elementary particle it is the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force photons are massless and they always move at the speed of light in vacuum 299 792 458 m s. The photoelectric effect is a property of light that is not explained by the theory that light is a wave.

Like all elementary particles photons are currently best explained by quantum mechanics and. The satellite named first light is the first spacecraft from rocket lab s family of configurable photon satellites to be deployed to orbit. Special edition mission patch for photon pathfinder mission first light embroidered onto a heat pressed application backing. A spacecraft designed for missions to the moon venus or mars.

Rocket lab launches first photon satellite by jeff foust september 3 2020 an image taken from first light the first rocket lab photon satellite placed in orbit during an electron launch aug. This is one of the main reasons that scientists chose to treat light as both a wave and a stream of particles. This spacecraft called first light is just a demo but nasa has already. Planck s constant the relationship between the energy of a photon and its frequency can be described by the following equation.

Launched as a technology demonstration first light builds upon the existing capabilities of the electron launch vehicle s kick stage with additional subsystems to enable long duration.