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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.
Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
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 48
Consecutive Success 11
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-08-03T01:36:03+0000
Launch success with signals acquisition.
Nosu
2024-08-02T17:37:34+0000
Payload deployed
Nosu
2024-08-02T16:40:00+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-08-02T16:33:36+0000
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-08-02T01:02:34+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-08-01T04:43:41+0000
Updated T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-31T04:41:09+0000
Rescheduled for August 2 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-30T13:08:12+0000
Scrubbed for the day due to adverse weather; new launch date TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-30T11:55:49+0000
Weather 40% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-30T04:41:51+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-29T01:50:23+0000
GO for launch.
hitura-nobad
2024-07-24T20:28:03+0000
NET 30th July 16:15 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-19T02:17:40+0000
Added mission name.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-19T01:08:28+0000
NET August 2024.
Nosu
2023-07-14T07:23:20+0000
Adding launch NET late 2023 or 2024
2024-08-03T03:04:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2024-08-02T20:30:12+0000
SpaceNews
2024-08-02T16:12:01+0000
Spaceflight Now
2024-07-30T17:31:10+0000
NASASpaceflight