Electron/Curie | Catch Me If You Can

Status

Success

Catch Me If You Can

Launch Time
Fri Nov 04, 2022 17:27 UTC

The first stage was planned to be recovered by helicopter, but the mid-air catch attempt was canceled due to unstable telemetry from the 1st stage during re-entry.

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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

Vehicles

Splashdown

F32 1st Stage

Flight #1

5th Electron recovery attempt

5th successful Electron recovery

5th consecutive successful Electron landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

MATS

MATS is a microsatellite mission of Sweden, funded by SNSB (Swedish National Space Board), with the goal to conduct optical studies of mesospheric gases for two years. Spaceborne limb imaging in combination with tomographic retrieval opens exciting new ways of probing horizontal and vertical structures in the atmosphere. SNSB approved the project following a detailed project study by OHB Sweden, Stockholm University's Department of Meteorology (MISU), Omnisys Instruments, and ÅAC Microtec.

See Eoportal for more information:
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/mats#mats-mesospheric-airglowaerosol-tomography-and-spectroscopy-mission

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 50.0 kg

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Wiki

Location

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

Stats

2022

152nd orbital launch attempt

Rocket Lab

32nd mission

9th mission of 2022

29th successful mission

12th consecutive successful mission

Electron

32nd mission

9th mission of 2022

29th successful mission

12th consecutive successful mission