
Electron | High Five (Kinéis 21-25)

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
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Mar 18, 01:31 – Mar 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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- Rocket Lab - 'High Five' Launch — Rocket Lab
Flight timeline
- T−2MStartup
- T−2SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+2M25SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M31SSES
- T+3M8SFairing Separation
- T+6M23SBattery Hotswap
- T+9MSECO
- T+9M4SKick Stage Separation
- T+52M24SKick Stage Ignition
- T+55M6SKick Stage Cut-off
- 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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