Mission Status
This One's For Pickering
Last Updated: 57 minutes ago
SUCCESS
Orbit Achieved
NASA
Vehicle
Electron
Launch Site
LC-1A
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Profile
Dedicated Rideshare
Sunday, December 16, 2018 06:33 AM UTC Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Source: RocketLabCorp
Mission State
Schedule
Date and time on file
This mission currently has a dated launch window in the tracker.
Coverage
Official livestream linked
The primary watch link points to an official Rocket Lab source.
Name Origin
AI
This mission honors William Pickering, a pioneering New Zealand-born scientist who led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was instrumental in early U.S. space exploration.
"This One's For Pickering"
Mission Overview
NASA's signed a Venture Class Launch Services contract with Rocket Lab to launch 10 cubesats as a part of CubeSat Launch Initiative Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program. Cubesats are: ALBus / CeREs / CHOMPTT / Da Vinci / ISX / NMTSat / RSat-P / Shields 1 / STF 1 / CubeSail A / CubeSail B /TOMSat EagleScout / TOMSat R3 / SHFT 1
Technical Details
Vehicle
Electron
Rocket Lab launch vehicle
Launch Site
Launch Complex 1A
LC-1A · Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Target Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Planned deployment regime
Mission Profile
Dedicated Rideshare
Mission architecture
Payload Mass
78 kg
31
kiwisCustomer
NASA
Mission customer