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Electron | High Five (Kinéis 21-25)

High Five

Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Rocket Lab's 62nd launch · 4th this year · humanity's 6,906th orbital launch attempt

T− --:--:--March 18, 2025 · 01:31 UTCAdd to calendar
Success

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Mar 18, 01:31Mar 18, 01:31 UTC

Flight preview

High Five (Kinéis 21-25)

Last of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Communications · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Booster

No booster details available.

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Flight timeline

  1. T−2MStartup
  2. T−2SIgnition
  3. P0DLiftoff
  4. T+2M25SMECO
  5. T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
  6. T+2M31SSES
  7. T+3M8SFairing Separation
  8. T+6M23SBattery Hotswap
  9. T+9MSECO
  10. T+9M4SKick Stage Separation
  11. T+52M24SKick Stage Ignition
  12. T+55M6SKick Stage Cut-off
  13. T+1H6M34SPayload Deployment Sequence End

Updates

  • Launch success.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 3/18/2025 · source

  • All 5 satellites have deployed.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 3/18/2025 · source

  • Liftoff.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 3/18/2025 · source

  • Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started

    LL2 · 3/18/2025 · source

  • Changed launch pad.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 3/15/2025 · source

  • GO for launch.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 3/10/2025 · source

  • NET March.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 2/13/2025 · source

Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A

Local pad time: Mar 18, 2:31 PM GMT+13

41 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

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