Rocket
Electron
Rocket Lab · United States
Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
- Manufacturer
- Rocket Lab
- First flight
- May 25, 2017
- Launches
- 97
- Successful
- 93
- Failed
- 4
- Success rate
- 95.9%
- Scheduled
- 57
- Height
- 18 m
- Diameter
- 1.2 m
- Liftoff mass
- 13 t
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 300 kg
- Reusable
- no
Upcoming launches of this rocket
- We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360) · October 21, 2026
- The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9) · November 4, 2026
- The Mountain God Rises (iQPS Launch 10) · November 10, 2026
- BlackSky Gen-3 6 · December 31, 2026
- BlackSky Gen-3 7 · December 31, 2026
- BlackSky Gen-3 8 · December 31, 2026