Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Thu Mar 21 2024
Rocket Lab

Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)

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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Electron

Description:

Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage.

Electron rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

Pad

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)