Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)

Rocket Lab Electron flight from Mahia, New Zealand carrying South Korea's KAIST NEONSat-1 Earth-observation satellite and NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) technology demonstrator; NEONSat-1 was placed in a roughly 520 km orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

116 kg (est.)

Flight

46th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

23 April 2024, 22:32 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

2024-077

Launches in 2024

79th of 263

See it in orbit

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