Launch Vehicle
Electron
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Specifications
- Status
- active
- Height
- 18 m
- Diameter
- 1.2 m
- Mass
- 13,000 kg
- Stages
- 3
- Payload to LEO
- 300 kg
- First flight
- 2017-05-25
- Total launches
- 89
- Success / Fail
- 85 / 4
Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
Payloads it launched · 292
STRIX-7
LEO
ARICA-2
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT B
LEO
FSI-SAT2
LEO
WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II
LEO
MAGNARO-II
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT H
LEO
ORIGAMISAT-2
LEO
KAKUSHIN RISING OBJECT C
LEO
LPNTSAT-001 (IOD-1)
LEO
LPNTSAT-002 (IOD-2)
LEO
STRIX-6
LEO
NEONSAT-1A
LEO
QPS-SAR-15 (SUKUNAMI-I)
LEO
DISKSAT D
LEO
DISKSAT B
LEO
DISKSAT A
LEO
DISKSAT C
LEO
RAISE-4
LEO
GLOBAL-33
LEO
QPS-SAR-14 (YACHIHOKO-I)
LEO
STRIX-5
LEO
BASIL
LEO
STARK
LEO
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