Electron | Baby Come Back (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket Lab's 39th launch · 7th this year · humanity's 6,474th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jul 17, 23:30 – Jul 18, 01:30 UTC
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Baby Come Back (Rideshare)
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.
Dedicated Rideshare · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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- 39 · flight 1 · Parachute Landing @ Pacific Ocean · landed ✓ · zone record 53/55
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Updates
Mission success confirmed
JRascagneres · 7/18/2023 · source
Liftoff
JRascagneres · 7/18/2023 · source
Livestream has started
LL2 · 7/18/2023 · source
Updating T-0
SwGustav · 7/17/2023 · source
Delayed due to weather
Jay · 7/16/2023 · source
NET July 16 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/13/2023 · source
Tweaked launch window
hitura-nobad · 7/8/2023 · source
Changed launch pad.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/28/2023 · source
Added launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/22/2023 · source
NET July 14th
Jay · 6/22/2023 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
Local pad time: Jul 18, 1:27 PM GMT+12
37 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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