11 November 2018, 03:50 UTC
It's Business Time (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab's "It's Business Time" was Electron's first commercial mission, deploying six smallsats including two Spire Lemur-2 weather/ship-tracking cubesats, Fleet Space Technologies' Proxima I, and a NABEO drag-sail demonstrator.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 85 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 11 November 2018, 03:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2018-088
- Launches in 2018
- 90th of 114
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