31 January 2024, 06:34 UTC
Four Of A Kind (NorthStar 1)
Rocket Lab's 'Four of a Kind' mission deployed four space situational awareness satellites for NorthStar Earth & Space, built by Spire, to a sun-synchronous orbit, and included a successful ocean splashdown recovery of Electron's first stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 31 January 2024, 06:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Space Situational Awareness
- International designator
- 2024-022
- Launches in 2024
- 22nd of 263
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas