Pics Or It Didn’t Happen (Rideshare)

Rocket Lab's 13th Electron flight, nicknamed "Pics Or It Didn't Happen," failed during the second-stage burn due to an intermittent electrical connection that caused thermal damage, destroying seven rideshare Earth-imaging satellites for Canon Electronics, Planet, and In-Space Missions bound for a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

13th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

4 July 2020, 21:19 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

Launches in 2020

47th of 114