Mission record
Electron | Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
Rocket Lab
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Dedicated Rideshare
Launch site
New Zealand
Date
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:32:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6667 ever
Mission
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is a technology demonstration mission tasked with deploying a composite boom solar sail. NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite by South Korea's KAIST that will be deployed as a technology demonstration for a planned future Earth observation constellation.
Deployed payloads · 1