NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

It’s a Little Chile Up Here

Launch Time
Thu Jul 29, 2021 06:00 UTC

Rocket

Electron/Curie
Image Credit: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab
Status: Active
Price: $7.5 million
Liftoff Thrust: 224 kN
Payload to LEO: 320 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 18.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.2 m
Fairing Height: 4.05 m

Mission Details

Monolith (STP-27RM)

Monolith is a USAF Research Laboratory technology demonstration satellite.
The microsatellite is set to demonstrate new deployable instruments in very small satellite bus. Monolith will carry a weather monitoring instrument.

Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand

Stats

2021

70th orbital launch attempt

Rocket Lab

21st mission
4th mission of 2021
18th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission

Electron

21st mission
4th mission of 2021
18th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission