The "Coming To A Storm Near You" mission deployed the final two of NASA's four TROPICS CubeSats from Rocket Lab's New Zealand pad, completing the constellation for hourly monitoring of tropical cyclone structure and intensity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 37th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 26 May 2023, 03:46 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
- 2023-073
- Launches in 2023
- 79th of 223
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