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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.
Commercial rideshare mission including payloads for Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Spaceflight Inc, Swarm Technologies and UNSEENLABS.
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 50
Consecutive Success 13
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Serial 26
Status retired
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success No
Type HC
Location PAC
Jay
2022-05-03T00:11:28+0000
All payloads deployed successfully
Jay
2022-05-02T22:50:28+0000
Liftoff
Nosu
2022-05-02T19:45:46+0000
Updating T-0
SwGustav
2022-04-30T21:37:41+0000
Delayed by another day due to weather
Jay
2022-04-29T18:44:17+0000
Delayed to May 1st UTC due to weather
Jay
2022-04-27T22:00:26+0000
Launch delayed to April 29 UTC due to unfavourable recovery weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-04-26T00:32:12+0000
New launch date
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-04-24T03:58:13+0000
New launch window
scottm3
2022-04-22T03:34:19+0000
Launch date pushed to 27th April UTC due to unfavorable recovery weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-04-21T18:52:31+0000
NET April 23 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-04-13T23:58:14+0000
New launch date
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-04-13T17:59:17+0000
Launch window confirmed.
Nosu
2022-04-05T19:49:19+0000
Adding launch NET April 19
2022-05-03T19:43:07+0000
Spaceflight Now
2022-05-03T13:12:05+0000
Arstechnica
2022-05-03T10:54:43+0000
Teslarati
2022-05-02T19:58:52+0000
NASASpaceflight
2022-05-02T00:23:42+0000
SpaceNews
2022-04-29T19:40:02+0000
Spaceflight Now
2022-04-11T23:49:05+0000
Spaceflight Now