19 August 2019, 12:12 UTC
Look Ma, No Hands (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab's "Look Ma, No Hands" rideshare mission deployed four smallsats from Mahia into a 540 km orbit: UNSEENLABS' BRO-1 maritime-surveillance satellite, Spaceflight's BlackSky Global-4 imaging satellite, and two U.S. Air Force technology demonstrators.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 85 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 2019, 12:12 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
- 2019-054
- Launches in 2019
- 59th of 102
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