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Electron | Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is a technology demonstration mission tasked with deploying a composite boom solar sail. NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite by South Korea's KAIST that will be deployed as a technology demonstration for a planned future Earth observation constellation.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
- T−00:02:00
Startup
- T−00:00:02
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:00:55
Supersonic
- T+00:01:07
Max-Q
- T+00:02:24
MECO
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- T+00:02:28
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:31
SES
- T+00:03:07
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:21
Battery Hotswap
- T+00:09:11
SECO
- T+00:09:15
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:47:09
Kick Stage Ignition
- T+00:49:16
Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+00:50:06
Payload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+01:45:36
Payload Deployment Sequence End