17 October 2019, 01:22 UTC
As The Crow Flies (Palisade)
Rocket Lab's As The Crow Flies mission deployed Astro Digital's Palisade, a 16U technology-demonstration cubesat with onboard propulsion, into a circular orbit above 1,000 km, the highest altitude reached by an Electron launch at the time.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 40 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 2019, 01:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2019-069
- Launches in 2019
- 74th of 102
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