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IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)
Electron
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITERocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Mission
Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
- Launch vehicle
- Electron
- Mission type
- Communications
- 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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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Flight timeline
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- T−00:02:00
Startup
- T−00:00:02
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:02:25
MECO
- T+00:02:28
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:31
SES
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- T+00:03:08
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:23
Battery Hotswap
- T+00:09:00
SECO
- T+00:09:04
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:52:24
Kick Stage Ignition
- T+00:55:06
Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+01:06:34
Payload Deployment Sequence End
Launch site & orbit
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Mission coverage
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