Electron/Curie | No Time Toulouse

Status

Success

No Time Toulouse

Launch Time
Thu Jun 20, 2024 18:13 UTC

50th launch of Electron.

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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

Details

Mission Details

Kinéis 1-5

First batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.

Payloads: 5

Total Mass: 150.0 kg

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

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

Stats

2024

116th orbital launch attempt

Rocket Lab

50th mission

8th mission of 2024

46th successful mission

9th consecutive successful mission

Electron

50th mission

8th mission of 2024

46th successful mission

9th consecutive successful mission