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Running Out of Toes (BlackSky 8-9)
Electron
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Launch Failure
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
This was the 20th launch of Electron rocket. It carried two Earth imaging microsatellites for BlackSky's constellation which were lost due to a launcher failure after second stage ignition.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Recovery
- Parachute Landing, The Electron first stage successfully performed a soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean using parachutes. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Electron
Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
- Height
- 18 m
- Diameter
- 1.2 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 80
- First flight
- 2017-05-25
Core
20
Flight 1NewLanding successful
- Recovery
- South Pacific
- Landing method
- Parachute Landing
Recorded timing
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2h 5m windowPublished target
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Mission update
Unspecified issue shortly after stage two ignition
Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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