26 March 2025, 15:30 UTC
Finding Hot Wildfires Near You (OroraTech OTC-P1)
Rocket Lab's 'Finding Hot Wildfires Near You' mission deployed eight Spire-built LEMUR satellites carrying OroraTech thermal-infrared cameras for wildfire detection to a 550 km sun-synchronous orbit, flown just four months after contract signing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 60th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 2025, 15:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2025-061
- Launches in 2025
- 63rd of 329
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