5 June 2024, 03:15 UTC
PREFIRE And Ice (PREFIRE 2)
The second of Rocket Lab's back-to-back Electron launches for NASA's PREFIRE mission, deploying a climate-research cubesat to a 525 km polar orbit from Mahia, New Zealand, just 11 days after the first. The pair measure heat radiated from Earth's polar regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 48th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 5 June 2024, 03:15 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
- 2024-108
- Launches in 2024
- 111th of 263
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