Success
Stronger Together (Capella 9-10)
Earth Science
Rocket Lab(RL)CommercialElectron
LEOorbit
Payload consists of 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for Capella Space. These 100-kg class satellites will expand Capella’s existing SAR constellation, increasing imaging capacity to meet growing customer demand.
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 10:38 PM
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Mission details
Orbital Attempt
#6,407
RL Mission
#34
Pad Launch
#2
Location Launch
#75
Designator
2023-035
Weather GO
95%
Launch Window
NET
Mar 16, 2023, 10:38 PM
Precision
Second
Schedule Changes
1 update
Lift Off
10:00 PM
Window Open
12:00 AM
Window Close
Electron Specs
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.
Length
18 m
Diameter
1.2 m
Launch Mass
13 t
Thrust
162 kN
LEO Capacity
300 kg
SSO Capacity
225 kg
Launch Cost
$6M
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2017
Fastest Turnaround
21h 55m
Total Launches
88
Successful
84
Failed
4
Consecutive Success
47
Maiden flight: May 25, 2017
Social Flight Log
- Mar 17, 2023, 3:23 AM
Launch success.
Source - Mar 16, 2023, 11:31 PM
Tweak in actual T-0
Source - Mar 16, 2023, 10:41 PM
Liftoff
Source - Mar 16, 2023, 10:15 PM
Livestream has started
Source - Mar 16, 2023, 8:31 PM
Updating T-0
Source - Mar 16, 2023, 4:08 PM
Weather 95% Go.
Source - Mar 15, 2023, 3:26 AM
Set GO based on weather.
Source - Mar 15, 2023, 12:51 AM
NET March 16 due to high winds.
Source - Mar 14, 2023, 10:23 PM
Weather 70-80%
Source - Mar 13, 2023, 8:20 PM
NET March 15 due to weather
Source - Mar 12, 2023, 12:51 AM
Next try NET March 14 per marine navigation warnings.
Source - Mar 11, 2023, 8:17 PM
Scrub due to strong upper level winds. Reverting to TBD March pending announcement of the new launch window.
Source - Mar 11, 2023, 1:37 AM
Weather 70% GO.
Source - Mar 7, 2023, 12:08 PM
Targeting Mar 11, setting GO
Source - Mar 1, 2023, 1:52 AM
Added launch.
Source
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)
Total Launches
12
Orbital Attempts
4
Fastest Turnaround
8d
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Founded
2006
Administrator
CEO: Peter Beck
Total Launches
88
Successful
84
Failed
4
Pending
42
Consecutive Success
47
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.
Timezone
America/New_York
Local Launch Time
Mar 16, 2023, 6:38 PM
Total Launches
86
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
37.9333, -75.4678