Mission record
Electron | Pics Or It Didn’t Happen (Rideshare)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Rocket Lab
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Dedicated Rideshare
Launch site
New Zealand
Date
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 21:19:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5969 ever
Failure
Launch vehicle suffered an anomaly during the second stage that resulted in the loss of the mission and all satellite payloads.
Mission
‘Pics Or It Didn’t Happen’ is the 13th mission for Rocket Lab. It was planned to deploy seven imaging small satellites to a 500km circular low Earth orbit for a range of customers including Spaceflight Inc.’s customer Canon Electronics, as well as Planet and In-Space Missions.