20 November 2020, 02:20 UTC
Return to Sender (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission deployed 30 smallsats to sun-synchronous orbit for customers including Swarm, Unseenlabs, TriSept and Valve, and included the company's first attempt to recover the first stage under parachute for an ocean splashdown.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 63 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 2020, 02:20 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
- 2020-085
- Launches in 2020
- 94th of 114
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