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