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2021 · Rocket Lab

They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)

successElectron | They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)

The Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosatellites for companies Fleet Space and Myriota, a technology demonstration satellite for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space, a weather satellite pathfinder technology demonstration from Care Weather technologies, a technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command as well as Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.

Overview

Date / time
March 22, 2021 at 10:30 PM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Mission
They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
Mission type
Dedicated Rideshare
Orbit achieved
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Launch vehicle
Electron →
Launch provider
Rocket Lab →

Payloads deployed · 8

CENTAURI-3 (TYVAK-0210)
LEO
GLOBAL-9
LEO
GUNSMOKE-J 3
LEO
M2-A
LEO
M2-B
LEO
MYRIOTA 7 (TYVAK-0152)
LEO
PHOTON-02
LEO
VEERY-RL1
LEO