This One's for Pickering

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:33:00

Sunday December 16, 2018

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Official Livestream

Mission Details

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ELaNa XIX

Wiki

The Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) is a NASA program to promote "access to space for small satellites, CubeSats, developed by the NASA Centers and programs, educational institutions and non-profit organizations giving CubeSat developers access to a low-cost pathway to conduct research in the areas of science, exploration, technology development, education or operations." The payloads on this flight are: - ALBus - CeREs - CHOMPTT - Da Vinci - ISX - NMTSat - Rsat-P - Shields 1 - STF 1 - CubeSail A & B - TOMSat EagleScout - TOMSat R3 - SHFT 1

Polar Orbit

14 Payloads

56 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Electron/Curie

Active Since 2018


Price

$7.50 million

Rocket

Height: 18m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 320 kg

Liftoff Thrust

224 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 1.2m

Height: 4.05m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Rocket Lab LC-1A

Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 1 hour

Stats

Electron


4th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2018

Rocket Lab


4th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2018

2018


106th

Orbital launch attempt