24 March 2023, 09:14 UTC
The Beat Goes On (BlackSky 18-19)
The Beat Goes On mission deployed two BlackSky Gen-2 Earth-imaging satellites to a 450 km orbit. Rocket Lab also tested ocean recovery of the Electron first stage and set a turnaround record by launching from opposite hemispheres seven days apart.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 130 kg
- Flight
- 35th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 24 March 2023, 09:14 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
- 2023-041
- Launches in 2023
- 46th of 223
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