FAILURE
Electron | It's a Test
Satellites
N/A
Orbit
LEO
Company: Rocket Lab
Status: Launch Failure
Fail Reason Third-party contractor supporting the launch misconfigured ground equipment that translated radio signals from the rocket into data used by range safety officials. That caused “extensive corruption of received position data,†resulting in the data loss that led safety officials to trigger the rocket’s flight termination system.
Launch date: May 25, 2017, 4:20 a.m. UTC
Rocket: Electron
Location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Type: Test Flight
Target: Low Earth Orbit
