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Electron | Running Out of Toes (BlackSky 8-9)
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
This was the 20th launch of Electron rocket. It carried two Earth imaging microsatellites for BlackSky's constellation which were lost due to a launcher failure after second stage ignition.
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