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Electron | Daughter Of The Stars (LEO-PNT Pathfinder A)
Rocket LabRocket Lab Launch Complex 1A — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Daughter Of The Stars (LEO-PNT Pathfinder A)
- Type
- Navigation
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
The European Space Agency (ESA)'s LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing) demonstrator mission will feature a 10-satellite constellation demonstration mission that will assess how a low Earth orbit fleet of satellites can work in combination with the Galileo and EGNOS constellations in higher orbits that provide Europe’s own global navigation system. This launch will lift 2 “Pathfinder A” satellites built by Thales Alenia Space and GMV to a 510 km altitude Low Earth Orbit.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Electron
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Location
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Country
- NZL
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Coordinates
- -39.2628, 177.8645