by Matt Wilson | Dec 9, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Lifting-off at 0818 GMT, 6 December 2019, the tenth Electron rocket from Rocket Lab has carried seven satellites in to orbit. The mission took place from the Rocket Lab facility in the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, on its way to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This is the...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 17, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching at 0122 GMT, on 17 October, a Rocket Lab, Electron rocket – with Curie upper-stage equipped – has carried into orbit a 16U CubeSat payload for Astro Digital. The satellite is called PALISADE, and is based on the company’s own Corvus-16, 16U...
by David Todd | Aug 19, 2019 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
After suffering a few days of high winds which delayed the launch, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four small satellites to low Earth orbit at 1212 GMT from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The satellites were the BlackSky Global-4, BRO-1, Pearl White 1 and...
by David Todd | Jul 2, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0430 GMT a 29 June a Rocket Lab Electron rocket (Electron KS) was launched from the Mahia Peninsula. Aboard were seven spacecraft which were put into a circa 460 x 452 km low Earth orbit inclined at 45 degrees relative to the Earth equator. The seventh flight of...
by David Todd | May 8, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0600 GMT on 5 May 2019, a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket was launched from Onenui Station on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. On board were the officially titled STP-27RD mission were three US military small satellites: The US Air Force Academy’s Falcon Ode...
