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Kinéis Killed The RadIoT Star

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-20 23:01 | |


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| | Scheduled for (NZST) | 2024-09-21 11:01 | | Launch site | Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand | | Booster recovery | No | | Launch vehicle | Electron + Curie | | Customer | Kinéis | | Payload | Kinéis 6-10 | | Mission success criteria | Successful deployment of spacecraft into desired orbit |

Livestreams

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| | Rocket Lab (official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beVTGh_PrA0 (scrub) | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDMBcSt4PUo (scrub) | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87oFE1ZmRck (scrub) |

Stats

  • This will be the 11th launch for Rocket Lab this year.
  • This will be the 53rd overall launch for Rocket Lab.

Payload info:

Rocket Lab mission page

NextSpaceflight:

Second batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.


Previous mission: A Sky Full Of SARs

Next mission: TBD

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https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1837241523949424741

Liquid oxygen propellant is now filling Electron as the countdown to launch continues.

Now just under T-2 hours to lift-off from LC-1 Pad A for today’s ‘Kineis Killed the RadIOT Star’ mission.