
Electron | IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)

Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket Lab's 59th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 6,877th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Feb 8, 20:43 – Feb 8, 20:43 UTC
Flight preview
IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)
Fourth batch 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 - 'IoT 4 U and Me' 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 · 2/9/2025 · source
All 5 payloads deployed.
hitura-nobad · 2/8/2025 · source
Liftoff!
hitura-nobad · 2/8/2025 · source
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
LL2 · 2/8/2025 · source
Rescheduled for February 8 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/5/2025 · source
Reverted to February TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/4/2025 · source
Scrubbed for the day due to Collision On Launch Avoidance/Assessment conflict.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/3/2025 · source
Updating pad
Nosu · 1/30/2025 · source
Added launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/22/2025 · source
NET February 3.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/21/2025 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Local pad time: Feb 9, 9:43 AM GMT+13
41 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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