This One's For Pickering (VCLS ELaNa XIX)

Rocket Lab's Electron, named 'This One's For Pickering' after JPL's first director William Pickering, launched 13 CubeSats for NASA's ELaNa-19 mission from Mahia, New Zealand, the first NASA smallsat mission to fly on a dedicated commercial rocket of its own.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

52 kg

Flight

4th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

16 December 2018, 06:33 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

2018-104

Launches in 2018

106th of 114

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