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Baby Come Back (Rideshare)
Electron
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
The "Baby Come Back" mission includes NASA's Starling project, which consists of four CubeSats designed to test technologies for future swarm missions. Telesat contributes the LEO 3 demonstration satellite, ensuring continuity for customers and ecosystem vendor testing. Additionally, two 3U satellites carrying GNSS-RO payloads from SpinGlobal will replenish their constellation of over 100 multipurpose satellites.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Recovery
- Parachute Landing, Rocket Lab has successfully recovered the Electron booster 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
39
Flight 1NewLanding successful
- Recovery
- Pacific Ocean
- Landing method
- Parachute Landing
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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