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They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
Electron
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First five payloads successfully deployed per live webcast. One more burn before the final payload - about forty minutes from now.
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
The Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosatellites for companies Fleet Space and Myriota, a technology demonstration satellite for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space, a weather satellite pathfinder technology demonstration from Care Weather technologies, a technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command as well as Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
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
Recorded timing
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2h 15m windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Mission coverage
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