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Electron | Stronger Together (Capella 9-10)

March 16, 2023 at 10:38 PM UTC

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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March 16, 2023 at 10:38 PM UTC

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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA · 37.8333, -75.4882

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Electron
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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Launch probability
95%
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March 16, 2023 at 10:00 PM UTC
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March 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
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August 1, 2024 at 4:32 PM UTC

Mission description

Payload consists of 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for Capella Space. These 100-kg class satellites will expand Capella’s existing SAR constellation, increasing imaging capacity to meet growing customer demand.

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Rocket Lab - 'Stronger Together' Launch

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Vehicle

Electron

Height

18 m

Diameter

1.2 m

LEO capacity

300 kg

Successful launches

88

Launch complex

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.

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Added launch.

March 1, 2023 at 1:52 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Targeting Mar 11, setting GO

March 7, 2023 at 12:08 PM UTC · SwGustav

Weather 70% GO.

March 11, 2023 at 1:37 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Scrub due to strong upper level winds. Reverting to TBD March pending announcement of the new launch window.

March 11, 2023 at 8:17 PM UTC · Nosu

Next try NET March 14 per marine navigation warnings.

March 12, 2023 at 12:51 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin