Rocket Lab's 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' Electron mission deployed the first two of NASA's four TROPICS CubeSats, a constellation for monitoring tropical cyclone formation and intensity, from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 36th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 8 May 2023, 01:00 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
- 2023-062
- Launches in 2023
- 68th of 223
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