Vehicle: ElectronCredit: Rocket Lab · Launch Library 2
BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites
- Target orbit
- LEO · Low Earth Orbit
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Payload
- BlackSky Gen-3 8
Mission Update
Added launch.
Rocket Lab/Electron·Unknown Pad
Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 8
Orbit: LEO·Type: Earth Science
Countdown to T-0
GMT Time
Spaceport
To Be Determined⟳ Estimate revised
Target liftoff time (UTC)
00:00:00 UTC
Friday, 31 December 2027
Planned T-0 liftoff
00:00:00 UTCWindow open
00:00:00 UTCPlanned ignition
00:00:00 UTCWindow close
- Rocket family
- Electron
- Height
- 18m
- Diameter
- 1.2m
- Payload to LEO
- 300kg
- Payload to SSO
- 225kg
- Liftoff thrust
- 162kN
- Stage 1 propulsion
- 9× Rutherford
- Stages
- 2 (optional 3rd)
- Cycle
- Electric-pump-fed
- Inaugural flight
- 2017-05-25
- Configuration
- Expendable
- Stages
- 2–3
- Pad name
- Unknown Pad
- Complex
- Launch Complex 1
- Location
- Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Latitude
- -39.260881°
- Longitude
- 177.865826°
- Operator
- Rocket Lab