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Launch of Electron in start of the "Birds of a Feather" mission. Electron is a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle built and operated by Rocket Lab. The rocket has been launched to orbit 55 times with 51 successes and four failures. A suborbital version of the rocket, HASTE, has been successfully launched three times.
Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Electron services the commercial small satellite launch market. [ 16 ]
Electron is a two-stage launch vehicle that uses Rocket Lab's Rutherford liquid engines on both stages. [103] [104] The vehicle is capable of delivering payloads of 150 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit. [105] The projected cost is less than US$5 million per launch. [106] Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket
Rocket Lab on Friday said it had launched its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand, the SpaceX rival's first flight since a mission failure in September. The previous mission ...
The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 a.m. on March 21, 2024, from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Rocket Lab launched its tenth Electron spacecraft on Friday morning, successfully delivering payloads for clients Spaceflight and Alba Orbital. The launch company also had an important secondary ...
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Launch Complex 1 on Māhia Peninsula Location Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand Coordinates 39°15′39″S 177°51′57″E / 39.26085°S 177.86586°E / -39.26085; 177.86586 (Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1) Time zone UTC+12 (NZST) • Summer (DST) UTC+13 (NZDT [a]) Operator Rocket Lab Total launches 52 Launch pad(s) 2 LC-1A launch history Status Active ...
The mission is scheduled to be Rocket Lab’s fourth launch of 2024 and 46th Electron launch overall. This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Next Electron rocket launch from ...