15 May 2021, 11:11 UTC
Running Out of Toes (BlackSky 8-9)
Rocket Lab's 'Running Out of Toes' mission carried two BlackSky Earth-observation satellites, but the second stage shut down shortly after ignition and both satellites were lost. The first stage was successfully recovered from a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 20th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 2021, 11:11 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
- Launches in 2021
- 42nd of 146