Rocket Lab mission about to launch at Māhia in 2024. Photo: Supplied / Rocket Lab
火箭实验室任务将于 2024 年在马希亚发射。 照片： 提供 / Rocket Lab
A group of satellites that Rocket Lab has helped put into space is poised to aid Ukraine’s military in the war with Russia.
Rocket Lab 帮助将一组卫星送入太空，准备在与俄罗斯的战争中帮助乌克兰军队。
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Rocket Lab USA launched its third mission for Japanese company iQPS at the weekend from its spaceport on Māhia Peninsula.
美国火箭实验室 （Rocket Lab USA） 周末从其位于马希亚半岛 （Māhia Peninsula） 的太空港发射了日本公司 iQPS 的第三次任务。
It has been widely reported Japan has agreed to provide Ukraine’s military intelligence agency for the first time with advanced synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from satellites run by iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space).
据广泛报道 ，日本已同意首次向乌克兰军事情报机构提供来自 iQPS（Q-shu 太空先驱研究所）运营的卫星的先进合成孔径雷达 （SAR） 图像。
“Another fantastic launch by the Electron team to flawlessly deliver another iQPS mission to orbit,” Rocket Lab founder Sir Peter Beck said on 17 May.
“Electron 团队的又一次精彩发射，完美地将另一个 iQPS 任务送入轨道，” 火箭实验室创始人彼得·贝克爵士于 5 月 17 日表示。
Ukraine has been buying commercial satellite imagery since the war began but ramped up its quest for it early this year after the Trump Administration temporarily suspended its official satellite imagery support for Kiev.
自战争开始以来， 乌克兰一直在购买商业卫星图像 ，但在特朗普政府暂时停止对基辅的官方卫星图像支持后，今年年初加大了对它的追求。
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SAR can see through clouds to map two- or three-dimensional images.
SAR 可以透过云层来绘制二维或三维图像。
Last year, a Finnish start-up ICEYE, that operated the largest constellation of 48 SAR satellites, provided two-fifths of the targeting data used by Ukrainian intelligence for high-profile strikes on Russian logistics hubs.
去年，运营着由 48 颗 SAR 卫星组成的最大星座的芬兰初创公司 ICEYE 提供了乌克兰情报部门用于对俄罗斯物流枢纽进行高调打击的目标数据的五分之二。
Based at Kyushu University, iQPS had five SAR observation satellites in orbit, and was aiming for three dozen; two of these were launched from Māhia in December 2023 and March this year.
iQPS 总部位于九州大学，在轨有 5 颗 SAR 观测卫星，目标是 30 颗; 其中两个于 2023 年 12 月和今年 3 月从 Māhia 发射。
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