18 July 2023, 01:27 UTC
Baby Come Back (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab's "Baby Come Back" Electron rideshare deployed seven satellites to low Earth orbit, including NASA's four-CubeSat Starling swarm technology demonstrator and two Spire radio-occultation satellites, and successfully recovered the first stage after an ocean splashdown.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 88 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 38th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 2023, 01:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2023-100
- Launches in 2023
- 107th of 223
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