Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE 1)

Rocket Lab's 'Ready, Aim, PREFIRE' mission, the first of two Electron launches for NASA's PREFIRE program, deploying a cubesat to a 525 km polar orbit from Mahia, New Zealand, to measure heat radiated from Earth's polar regions.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

PO

Polar orbit

Payload to orbit

10 kg (est.)

Flight

47th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

25 May 2024, 07:41 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

2024-099

Launches in 2024

101st of 263

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