Electron | They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket Lab's 19th launch · 2nd this year · humanity's 6,061st orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Mar 22, 21:50 – Mar 23, 00:05 UTC
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They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
The Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosatellites for companies Fleet Space and Myriota, a technology demonstration satellite for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space, a weather satellite pathfinder technology demonstration from Care Weather technologies, a technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command as well as Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.
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Success confirmed
SwGustav · 3/23/2021 · source
First five payloads successfully deployed per live webcast. One more burn before the final payload - about forty minutes from now.
spacelaunchnowadmin · 3/22/2021
Adjusting T-0
Nosu · 3/22/2021 · source
Launch is GO. Window opens on March 22 at 22:20 UTC.
Nosu · 3/21/2021 · source
Launch expected on March 22. Precise T-0 not available yet.
Nosu · 3/18/2021 · source
Adding the launch
SwGustav · 2/10/2021 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
41 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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