Electron | Eight Days A Week (StriX Launch 8)
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2026-03-19 17:45:00GMT
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Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Type: Commercial
Successful Launch / Total Launch: 79 / 83
Number of launch attempt this year: 4
Launchers: Electron
Spacecraft: -
Synspective was established with the aim to integrate SAR satellite technology in society through the agility of a start-up company. Synspective derives its name from the company concept of “Synthetic Data for Perspective on Sustainable Development.
Type: Private
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 0 / 0
Launchers: -
Spacecraft: -
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. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 79 / 83
Height: 18.0 m
Diameter: 1.2 m
Liftoff Mass: 13 t
Liftoff Thrust: 162 kN
Cost: 6000000 €
LEO / GTO capacity: 300 kg / - kg
Apogee: - km
1st flight: 2017-05-25
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Window: 2026-03-19 17:45:00GMT
Location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Launches from the pad this year / Total launches from the pad: 0 / 0
Total launches from the location: 72
Timezone: Pacific/Auckland