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Electron | Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Rocket Lab's 46th launch · 4th this year · humanity's 6,643rd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Ground Winds
Window: Mar 21, 05:30 – Mar 21, 07:25 UTC
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Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)
Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Government/Top Secret · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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Flight timeline
- T−2MStartup
- T−2SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+58SSupersonic
- T+1M10SMax-Q
- T+2M25SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M32SSES
- T+3M35SFairing Separation
- T+6M23SBattery Hotswap
- T+9M8SSECO
- T+9M12SKick Stage Separation
- T+54M20SKick Stage Burn
- T+1HPayload Separation
Updates
Launch success confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/21/2024 · source
Liftoff
hitura-nobad · 3/21/2024 · source
Proceeding with launch at 07:25 UTC
hitura-nobad · 3/21/2024 · source
T-0 set to 07:25 UTC, issue still being worked on
hitura-nobad · 3/21/2024 · source
launch window extended
hitura-nobad · 3/21/2024 · source
Hold at T-04:36
hitura-nobad · 3/21/2024 · source
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
LL2 · 3/21/2024 · source
Adjusted launch window
hitura-nobad · 3/20/2024 · source
Updated launch weather.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/19/2024 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/18/2024 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)
Local pad time: Mar 21, 3:25 AM EDT
13 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
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