23 August 2023, 23:45 UTC
We Love the Nightlife (Capella Acadia 1)
Rocket Lab's 'We Love the Nightlife' mission deployed Capella Space's Acadia-1 synthetic-aperture radar satellite to low Earth orbit and marked the first Electron flight to reuse a previously flown Rutherford engine.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 180 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 39th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 2023, 23:45 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
- 2023-126
- Launches in 2023
- 134th of 223
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