NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Love At First Insight

Launch Time
Thu Nov 18, 2021 01:38 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

Vehicles

Splashdown

F22 1st Stage

Flight #1
3rd Electron recovery attempt
3rd successful Electron recovery
3rd consecutive successful Electron landing and recovery

Mission Details

BlackSky 10 and 11

BlackSky’s Global 14 and 15 are part of sixty high resolution earth observation microsatellites in the BlackSky constellation. This constellation will provide real-time earth observation. the constellation is built by Blacksky, a SpaceFlight Subsidiary, and the satellites are produced by LeoStella LLC, a joint venture of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space.

The second generation of satellites has improved solar arrays and better imaging equipment.

Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 112.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

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

Stats

2021

113th orbital launch attempt

Rocket Lab

22nd mission
5th mission of 2021
19th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission

Electron

22nd mission
5th mission of 2021
19th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission