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Electron
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Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
Commercial rideshare mission including payloads for Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Spaceflight Inc, Swarm Technologies and UNSEENLABS.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Recovery
- Helicopter Catch, Rocket lab successfully caught the Electron first stage, however due to different load characteristics than were experienced during testing the pilot dropped the stage at his discretion to complete a successful splashdown. +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
26
Flight 1NewLanding failed
- Recovery
- South Pacific
- Landing method
- Helicopter Catch
Recorded timing
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2h 5m windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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