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Electron | Stronger Together

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
March 16, 2023, 10:38 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Payload consists of 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for Capella Space. These 100-kg class satellites will expand Capella’s existing SAR constellation, increasing imaging capacity to meet growing customer demand.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | Virginia is for Launch Lovers

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
Jan. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Rideshare mission with 3 HawkEye 360 satellites and other payloads.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | Catch Me If You Can

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Nov. 4, 2022, 5:27 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The payload is a science research satellite by space systems provider OHB Sweden for the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). The Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (MATS) satellite is the basis for the SNSA’s science mission to investigate atmospheric waves and better understand how the upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere interacts with wind and weather patterns closer to the ground. MATS was originally due to fly on a Russian launch service before the mission was manifested on Rocket Lab’s Electron.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit 32 - Maiden Flight South Pacific
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Electron | It Argos Up From Here

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Oct. 7, 2022, 5:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The “It Argos Up From Here” mission will launch the General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems designed and manufactured satellite GAzelle, carrying Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload, part of the international Argos program that collects data from thousands of sensors and transmitters located around the world.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | The Owl Spreads Its Wings

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Sept. 15, 2022, 8:38 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second of three launches of a StriX satellite as part of Synspective’s SAR constellation. StriX-1 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 | Antipodean Adventure (NROL-199)

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Aug. 4, 2022, 5 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Unknown
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Electron | Wise One Looks Ahead (NROL-162)

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
July 13, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Unknown
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Electron | CAPSTONE

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
June 28, 2022, 9:55 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Planetary Science

CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in near rectiliniar halo orbit around the Moon, which is to be used for the Lunar Gateway space station. Mission will verify the near rectilinear halo orbit characteristics, spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation services in that orbit, and provide valuable experience of small sat launch to the Moon.

Lunar Orbit
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Electron | There and Back Again

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
May 2, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Commercial rideshare mission including payloads for Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Spaceflight Inc, Swarm Technologies and UNSEENLABS.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit 26 - Maiden Flight South Pacific
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Electron | Without Mission A Beat

Rocket Lab Ltd | USA
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 2, 2022, 12:41 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Payload consists of two BlackSky Gen-2 high-resolution multi-spectral Earth observation satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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