2024 · Rocket Lab
Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
successElectron | 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.
Overview
- Date / time
- April 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- Mission
- Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
- Mission type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit