Rocket Lab's first Electron test flight, 'It's a Test,' launched from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, reaching space but not orbit. Range safety terminated the flight four minutes after liftoff, at 224 km altitude, after a ground telemetry equipment fault - not a rocket issue - corrupted position data.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 2017, 04:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2017
- 28th of 90