22 March 2021, 22:30 UTC
They Go Up So Fast (Rideshare)
Rocket Lab's 19th Electron mission launched from Mahia, New Zealand, deploying seven payloads including a BlackSky imaging satellite, IoT nanosats for Fleet Space and Myriota, a UNSW Canberra/RAAF test satellite, a Care Weather cubesat, and Rocket Lab's own Photon pathfinder, its 100th satellite deployed to orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 153 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 19th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 2021, 22:30 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
- 2021-023
- Launches in 2021
- 24th of 146
See it in orbit
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