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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.
First batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
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 49
Consecutive Success 12
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
SwGustav
2024-06-20T20:13:40+0000
Success confirmed
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-20T19:24:38+0000
Payload deployment confirmed.
hitura-nobad
2024-06-20T18:14:17+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-06-20T17:27:34+0000
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-17T03:59:54+0000
Delayed to NET June 20 due to weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-14T09:04:46+0000
Updated launch pad.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-11T01:28:28+0000
Updated launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-07T10:14:41+0000
Tweaked launch time for UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-07T10:08:16+0000
NET June 19.
Nosu
2024-02-12T10:41:03+0000
Targeting between June 10 and July 9
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-16T09:52:21+0000
NET June 2024.
Nosu
2023-03-01T08:16:43+0000
NET late 2023
2024-06-21T11:32:57+0000
SpaceNews
2024-06-21T10:45:01+0000
Arstechnica
2024-06-20T17:26:57+0000
Spaceflight Now
2024-06-17T21:52:56+0000
NASASpaceflight