20 January 2021, 07:26 UTC
Another One Leaves The Crust (GMS-T)
Rocket Lab's Electron mission 'Another One Leaves the Crust' deployed a classified communications satellite for Germany's OHB Group from Mahia, New Zealand, about six months after the launch contract was signed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 50 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 20 January 2021, 07:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-004
- Launches in 2021
- 4th of 146
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