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Name: | Electron |
| Manufacturer: | Rocket Lab | |
| Height: | 18 m / 59 ft | |
| Diameter: | 1.2 m / 3.9 ft | |
| Mass: | 12.5 ton / 28,000 lb | |
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| Stages: | 2 / 3 | |
| Engines first stage: | 9 x Rutherford | |
| Engines second stage: | 1 x Rutherford | |
| Engines kick stage: | 1 x Curie | |
| Cost per launch: | $7,5 million | |
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| First launch: | 25/05/2017 | |
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Images: Rocket Lab
This article was published by FutureSpaceFlight founder and chief editor Kris Christiaens. Kris Christiaens has been passionate and fascinated by spaceflight and space exploration all his life and has written hundreds of articles on space projects, the commercial space industry and space missions over the past 20 years for magazines, books and websites. In late 2021, he founded the website FutureSpaceFlight with the goal of promoting new space companies and commercial space projects and compiling news of these start-ups and companies on one website.
