Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 162 kN
- Height
- 18 m
- Diameter
- 1.2 m
- Launch mass
- 13 t
- Stages
- 3
- Launch cost
- $6M
- LEO capacity
- 300 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 225 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
91
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
95.6%
87 of 91
Current success streak
50
Landings
7
9 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Boosters that flew this rocket
Boosters by flights
- 201 flights1/1 landings
- 221 flights1/1 landings
- 241 flights
- 251 flights
- 261 flights0/1 landings
- 271 flights
- 281 flights
- 291 flights
- 301 flights
- 161 flights1/1 landings
Serial-tracked stages only — predominantly SpaceX.
Launches
Next: Electron | StriX Launch 11 — July 31, 2026
- Electron | Ten Owl Of Ten (StriX Launch 10) — Success
- Electron | VICTUS HAZE Puma — Success
- HASTE | Curveball — Success
- Electron | Viva La StriX (StriX Launch 9) — Success
- Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare) — Success