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Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Payload consists of two BlackSky Gen-2 high-resolution multi-spectral Earth observation satellites.
Height 18.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 162 kN
Diameter 1.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 300 kg
Liftoff Mass 13 Tonnes
Launch Success 54
Consecutive Success 17
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
SwGustav
2021-12-09T01:12:49+0000
Launch success
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-12-08T18:06:44+0000
New T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-12-06T04:03:56+0000
New launch date due to weather.
SwGustav
2021-12-01T20:06:13+0000
Updating NET
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-11-23T06:28:19+0000
Move to December 2021.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-10-11T10:54:35+0000
Added launch
2021-12-09T10:17:17+0000
Spaceflight Now
2021-12-09T05:57:20+0000
SpaceNews
2021-12-08T20:37:03+0000
NASASpaceflight
2021-11-23T23:52:04+0000
SpaceNews