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Electron | Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (Protosat-1)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Nov. 5, 2024, 10:54 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Launch of a yet to identified satellite to SSO for an undisclosed customer. The customer is highly likely to be Low Earth Orbit communication satellite constellation operator E-Space. Launch contract was signed less than 2 months before launch.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | Kinéis Killed the RadIoT Star (Kinéis 6-10)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Sept. 20, 2024, 11:01 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | A Sky Full of SARs (Capella Acadia 3)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Aug. 11, 2024, 1:18 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Payload consists of a single SAR Earth-imaging Acadia satellite, a new generation satellite designed, manufactured, and operated by Capella Space.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | Owl for One, One for Owl (StriX Launch 5)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Aug. 2, 2024, 4:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | No Time Toulouse (Kinéis 1-5)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
June 20, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

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Electron | PREFIRE And Ice (PREFIRE 2)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
June 5, 2024, 3:15 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second 6U Cubesat carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle for NASAs PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.

Polar Orbit
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Electron | Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE 1)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
May 25, 2024, 7:41 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First 6U Cubesat carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle for NASAs PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.

Polar Orbit
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Electron | Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 23, 2024, 10:32 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is a technology demonstration mission tasked with deploying a composite boom solar sail. NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite by South Korea's KAIST that will be deployed as a technology demonstration for a planned future Earth observation constellation.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
March 21, 2024, 7:25 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Unknown
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Electron | Owl Night Long (StriX-3)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
March 12, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

StriX-3 is a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. It can gather high resolution Earth observation data regardless of conditions or daylight, offering a resilient and effective resource for the purposes of urban development, infrastructure monitoring, and disaster response.

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