Success
Virginia is for Launch Lovers (Hawk 6A-C)
Dedicated Rideshare
Rocket Lab(RL)CommercialElectron
LEOorbit
Rideshare mission with 3 HawkEye 360 satellites.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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Mission details
Orbital Attempt
#6,381
RL Mission
#33
Pad Launch
#1
Location Launch
#74
Designator
2023-011
Weather GO
85%
Launch Window
NET
Jan 24, 2023, 11:00 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
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
- Jan 25, 2023, 12:36 AM
Success confirmed
Source - Jan 24, 2023, 11:00 PM
Liftoff
Source - Jan 24, 2023, 10:45 PM
Coverage live
Source - Jan 23, 2023, 2:31 AM
24 hour delay due to weather.
Source - Jan 21, 2023, 3:23 PM
Weather 85% GO
Source - Jan 11, 2023, 1:09 PM
Targeting between January 23 23:00 UTC and January 24 01:00 UTC
Source - Dec 19, 2022, 11:13 PM
Now targeting January due to strong upper-level winds
Source - Dec 19, 2022, 4:55 AM
NET December 20 LT
Source - Dec 19, 2022, 12:52 AM
Scrub due to weather, 24 hour recycle
Source - Dec 18, 2022, 10:19 PM
Coverage live
Source - Dec 16, 2022, 12:12 AM
NET December 18
Source - Dec 14, 2022, 5:57 PM
Weather 85%
Source - Dec 14, 2022, 2:22 AM
NET December 16
Source - Dec 11, 2022, 3:07 PM
NET December 15
Source - Dec 7, 2022, 4:45 PM
NET December 13
Source - Nov 30, 2022, 9:03 PM
Delayed to December 9
Source - Nov 20, 2022, 11:02 PM
Updated launch window.
Source - Nov 20, 2022, 7:42 PM
Updating T-0 and setting GO
Source - Nov 19, 2022, 6:24 PM
Adding launch window per TFR FDC 2/5134
Source - Nov 9, 2022, 9:35 PM
Updating mission name
Source - Nov 9, 2022, 9:27 PM
NET December 7
Source - Apr 20, 2022, 8:34 AM
Adding 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
Jan 24, 2023, 6:00 PM
Total Launches
86
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
37.9333, -75.4678