009 - As The Crow Flies

[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> <span class="no-hover">[[Launches]]</span> <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> 009 - As The Crow Flies >[!success] Mission Success This mission lifted-off at 14:22 NZDT, 17th October 2019, from Rocket Lab's [[Launch Complex 1]] on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula. Encapsulated in Electron’s fairing was a single spacecraft for Astro Digital, a California-based satellite manufacturer and operator. Astro Digital provides customers with complete space-based systems and mission support services for applications such as Earth observation, satellite communications, and technology demonstration. This mission flew a Palisade technology demonstration satellite, a 16U CubeSat bus with on-board propulsion system, a next generation Astro Digital developed communications system, and software developed by Advanced Solutions Inc. including an advanced version of ASI’s MAX Flight Software. The mission was named ‘As The Crow Flies’ in a nod to Astro Digital’s Corvus Platform, which provides flexible and cost-effective solutions across a wide range of applications and mission profiles on bus variants ranging from 6U and 16U CubeSats to ESPA Class. Corvus is also a widely-distributed genus of birds which includes crows. #electron #launch #success | **Mission Name** | As The Crow Flies | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Launch Date** | 2019-10-17 01:22 | | **Outcome** | ✅ Success | | **Customer** | [[Astro Digital]] | | **Location** | [[Launch Complex 1#Launch Pad A]] | | **Vehicle** | [[Electron]] | | **Orbit Type** | [[🌍 Orbits#LEO]] | | **Target Orbit** | 1200 km | 87.9° | | **Payload Mass** | 20 kg | | **Recovery** | No Attempt | | **Mission Link** | [As The Crow Flies](https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/missions-launched/as-the-crow-flies/) | | **Press Kit** | [Press Kit PDF](https://rocketlabcorp.com/assets/Uploads/MED19-003-Launch-Media-Kit-Flight-nine-complete.pdf) | ![[Pasted image 20250406131951.png|300]] ## Launch Video <div class="responsive-video"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gI_Ng4SGyUY" title="Rocket Lab's Electron - As The Crow Flies Mission" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> ## News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(mission, [[009 - As The Crow Flies]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | [[News/Rocket Lab successfully launches ninth Electron mission, deploys payload to highest orbit yet.md\|Rocket Lab successfully launches ninth Electron mission, deploys payload to highest orbit yet]] | October 17, 2019 | | [[News/Rocket Lab to launch dedicated mission for Astro Digital.md\|Rocket Lab to launch dedicated mission for Astro Digital]] | September 30, 2019 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%