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Electron | No Time Toulouse (Kinéis 1-5)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, 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.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | PREFIRE And Ice (PREFIRE 2)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, 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
Onenui Station, 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
Onenui Station, 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 Island, 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

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, 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.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | On Closer Inspection (ADRAS-J)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Feb. 18, 2024, 2:52 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) mission consists of a spacecraft developed and operated by Astroscale aiming to rendezvous with and characterize a large piece of debris. Its target is the H-2A upper stage left in Low Earth Orbit after the launch of the GOSAT Earth observation satellite in 2009.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | Four Of A Kind (NorthStar 1)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Jan. 31, 2024, 6:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Four space situational awareness (SSA) satellites for Canadian company NorthStar Earth and Space.

Low Earth Orbit 43 - Maiden Flight Pacific Ocean
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Electron | The Moon God Awakens (QPS-SAR-5)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Dec. 15, 2023, 4:05 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

QPS-SAR-5 is a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite that will join a constellation after QPS-SAR-6 already in orbit. iQPS’s satellites are small, high-performance SAR satellites that use a lightweight, large, stowable antenna to collect high resolution images of Earth, even through clouds and adverse weather conditions.

Low Earth Orbit 42 - Maiden Flight South Pacific
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Electron | We Will Never Desert You (Capella Acadia 2)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Sept. 19, 2023, 6:55 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
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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