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 >[!summary] 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 %%