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Fasten Your Space Belts (BlackSky Gen-3 1)
Electron
Historical mission record
This page records Electron | Fasten Your Space Belts (BlackSky Gen-3 1) and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
The first of five BlackSky Technology missions to deploy its new next-generation BlackSky Gen-3 satellites. The commercial constellation of Gen-3 satellites has the capability to produce imagery with 50-centimeter resolution and host multiple sensors, including in shortwave infrared (SWIR). The improved resolution and enhanced spectral diversity of the Gen-3 satellites will expand BlackSky's ability to provide real-time information to its customers.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- 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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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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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+00:00:57
Supersonic
- T+00:01:09
Max-Q
- T+00:02:38
MECO
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- T+00:02:41
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:44
SES
- T+00:03:32
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:34
Battery Hotswap
- T+00:09:11
SECO
- T+00:09:15
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:51:20
Kick Stage Ignition
- T+00:54:43
Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+00:55:28
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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