The Kick Stage will take your satellite exactly where it needs to go, even when flying on rideshare missions.

Powered by the Curie engine, named after the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, the Kick Stage is a nimble but powerful extra stage on Electron designed to circularize payload orbits. It employs a cold gas reaction control system to precisely point itself and deploy satellites to independent yet highly precise orbits, and also eliminate the risk of recontact with other spacecraft during deployment.

We're committed to the sustainable use of space by minimizing orbital debris. That's why we've designed the Electron launch system to leave nothing in orbit but our customers' satellites.

After all payloads are deployed, the Kick Stage can reorient itself and reignite the Curie engine one last time to perform a deorbit maneuver. This drastically lowers the kick stage’s orbit, enabling it to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up without a trace once its work in space is done.

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