Rocket Lab (Electron Rakete)

Here's what you need to know about the Electron rocket, which is set to launch from New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron, a light-lift launcher for small satellites, is ready to make its debut test flight from a peninsula in New Zealand.

Link: www.planetary.org

Electron (rocket) - Wikipedia

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Maiden Electron Launch Cut Short by Faulty Ground Equipment – Spaceflight101

After the mission, Rocket Lab engineering teams combed through over 25,000 channels of data collected during the flight to understand what caused the rocket to fall short of orbit and provide a detailed assessment on how all launch vehicle subsystems performed in the actual flight environment. “The review found the launch had to be terminated due to an independent contractor’s ground equipment issue, rather than an issue with the rocket,” the company said in a statement. “Rocket Lab’s investigation board has identified the root causes and corrective actions.”

According to Rocket Lab’s post-mortem analysis, Electron had climbed to an altitude of 224 Kilometers when, around four minutes into the flight, ground telemetry equipment operated at the Mahia launch site by a third-party contractor lost contact with the launch vehicle. Per standard procedure, range safety officials made the call to terminate the flight and issued the destruct commands to the rocket’s Flight Termination System. Data from Rocket Lab’s own telemetry equipment confirmed the rocket was following a nominal trajectory and was performing as planned at the time of flight termination.

Link: spaceflight101.com