Electron | They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
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
- They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
- Type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
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
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