Electron | Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Rocket Lab
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.
Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is a technology demonstration mission tasked with deploying a composite boom solar sail. NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite by South Korea's KAIST that will be deployed as a technology demonstration for a planned future Earth observation constellation.
Electron
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 52
Consecutive Success 15
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-24T12:29:55+0000
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-24T00:31:50+0000
Both payloads have been deployed.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-23T22:32:49+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-23T22:23:20+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-23T22:06:32+0000
Holding at T-12 minutes for ground systems issue.
LL2
2024-04-23T21:48:29+0000
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-23T17:50:48+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-19T07:12:08+0000
Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-18T23:26:10+0000
Reverted back to April 23 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-17T02:48:49+0000
NET April 24.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-04T07:13:26+0000
Edited launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-02T01:27:05+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-30T14:09:16+0000
Added tentative launch date and time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-09-15T08:22:13+0000
NET Q1 2024.
Nosu
2022-08-10T08:55:49+0000
NET early 2023
spacevogel
2021-10-07T15:48:36+0000
Added launch, currently NET mid-2022.
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