29 July 2021, 06:00 UTC
It’s a Little Chile Up Here (STP-27RM)
Rocket Lab's Electron returned to flight after a mid-May failure, launching the "It's a Little Chile Up Here" mission from Mahia, New Zealand to deliver the U.S. Space Force's Monolith technology-demonstration satellite for the Air Force Research Laboratory to low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 2021, 06:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2021-068
- Launches in 2021
- 72nd of 146
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