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Four Of A Kind (NorthStar 1)
Electron
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
Four space situational awareness (SSA) satellites for Canadian company NorthStar Earth and Space.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Space Situational Awareness
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Recovery
- Parachute Landing, The Electron booster was successfully recovered after a soft parachute splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. +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
43
Flight 1NewLanding successful
- Recovery
- Pacific Ocean
- Landing method
- Parachute Landing
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
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Target ·
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Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:02:00
Startup
- T−00:00:02
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:00:55
Supersonic
- T+00:01:07
Max-Q
- T+00:02:25
MECO
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- T+00:02:28
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:31
SES
- T+00:03:07
Fairing Separation
- T+00:04:26
Stage 1 Apogee
- T+00:07:08
Stage 1 Drogue
- T+00:07:25
Stage 1 Subsonic
- T+00:08:00
Stage 1 Parachute
- T+00:09:20
SECO
- T+00:09:24
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:18:04
Stage 1 Splashdown
- T+00:48:23
Kick Stage Ignition
- T+00:50:27
Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+01:17:00
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Launch site & orbit
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Coverage & sources
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Mission coverage
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