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Rocket 'Lost' After New Zealand Launch Satellite-Carrying
A rocket from Rocket Lab, a small-satellite launch company, was missing minutes after a successful New Zealand lift on Saturday, said the company was losing its payload of seven small satellites it was planning to transport into space.
Today, during the launch of the Rocket Lab, a problem was experienced which resulted in vehicle loss, said the company on Twitter, adding more information as available.
The Auckland company, located at New Zealand said, we 're deeply sorry for the customers on board Electron. During the 2nd stage burn the issue took place late in the flight.
A brief statement about today's mission from our founder and CEO, Peter Beck. pic.twitter.com/QUShtzp7J0
— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) July 5, 2020
Rocket Lab is one of a growing group of launching companies that seek to lower the cost of shoeboxing downtown satellites, building smaller rockets and reinventing traditional manufacturing lines in order to meet the growing demand for payload.
According to the in-flight telemetry in live video feed, roughly seven minutes after raising, the rocket altitude peaked at 121 miles (195 km), before decreasing rapidly.
The aim was to send five minute earth imagery satellites from Planet Labs and one microsatellite from Canon Electronics to a sun-synchronous orbit 310 miles above Earth, and one cubesat from British company In-Space Missions.
Pics Or It Didn't Happen was the failure of the mission and 13th payload launch of the company.
When it's always the result we expect, there's a risk that one Planet's launch failure will always be ready for, Planet Labs said in Saturday's statement , adding that the future looks forward to flying the Electron again.
