Upcoming Rocket Lab Rocket Launches to Space, Livestreams & Events

All Rocket Lab dates are estimates based on the latest available information and may change
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  • TBC (To Be Confirmed)
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Rocket Lab The Mountain God Rises QPS-SAR-19 (YAMATSUMI-II)

UPDATED • DELAYED

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-20 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@RocketLab When it comes to dedicated small launch, nothing flies more often than Electron 🚀 We're proud to keep that momentum going in the lead up to our 100th launch. Here's what's on the manifest for our next three missions: 🦅 "We're Not Hawking Around" – HawkEye 360 | NET Oct 21 🌊 "The Sea God Surveys" – iQPS | NET Nov 4 ⛰️ "The Mountain God Rises" – iQPS | NET Nov 10

iQPS QPS-SAR

NASA Rocket Lab LOXSAT

UPDATED • DELAYED

2026

Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | Curie Engine • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) | NASA Tipping Point Program • Eta Space LOXSAT • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@RocketLab LOXSAT is an incredibly exciting and ambitious mission. Electron and Photon will conduct a flight demonstration of a complete cryogenic fluid management system in orbit for NASA and Eta Space - essentially building, launching, and testing a cryogenic fuel depot in space!

Eta Space LOXSAT

Recent Videos of Rocket Lab Rocket Launches to Space & Events

Classified Rocket Lab VICTUS HAZE Puma (TacRS-4)

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

TBC Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Pioneer • Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS-4) • True Anomaly Mission X-3 (MX-3) JACKAL-0004 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE That's Not A Knife DART AE Suborbital Hypersonic

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)

Classified Rocket Lab Don't Be Such A Square STP-S30 DiskSat

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Space Systems Command (SSC) Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program STP-S30 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • NASA DiskSat | The Aerospace Corporation • Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) • Press Kit • Press Kit

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE Prometheus Run Suborbital Hypersonic

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)

NASA Blue Origin New Glenn (NG-2) ESCAPADE Blue & Gold

 

Launch Complex 16 (LC-36) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Blue Origin New Glenn Reusable GS1-7E02-1 | Seven BE-4 LOX / LNG Engines • Second Stage | Two BE-3U LOX / LH2 Vacuum Engines • Jacklyn Landing Platform Vessel 1 (LPV1) • Viasat Real-Time Space Relay (RTSR) Demo | Loft Orbital • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) | Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) | Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) • UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) • Rocket Lab ESCAPADE | Twin Photon Explorer Spacecraft | HyperCurie Engine • Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2) Staging Orbit • Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) | Mars | Explorer

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE Justin Suborbital Hypersonic

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)

NASA SpaceX IMAP SWFO-L1 Carruthers Rideshare

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1096.2 Flight 2 • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) • NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) | Princeton University • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) | Ball Aerospace | Rocket Lab • NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory | GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere) • Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1)

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE Jenna Suborbital Hypersonic

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)

SpaceX Transporter-13 Smallsat Rideshare

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.13 Flight 13 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 74 Spacecraft • Albedo Clarity-1 (VLEO) • Alba Orbital Cluster 9 (5) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 61 TRYAD-1 & TRAYAD-2 | Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 64 Montana State University (MSU) Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) • Exolaunch (27) EXOpod Nova CarboNIX Quadro | HEO Holmes & Adler | ICEYE Gen4 X46 X48 X50 X51 (4) | Loft Orbital Yam-8 | Sidus Space LizzieSat-3 | Spire Global (7) | Turion Space DROID.002 | U-Space SOAP & PANDORE (2) • NASA Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) (3) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL] • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Advanced Systems & Technology Directorate (AS&T) (6) • SEOPS (23) | ISISPACE | Maverick Space Systems | 2024-BLAZE (3) • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-3 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit

SpaceX Transporter-12 Smallsat Rideshare

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1088.2 Flight 2 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 131 Spacecraft • Alba Orbital Cluster 8 (7) • D-Orbit Endless Sky ION SCV014 Amazing Antonius (8) & Ascend ION SCV016 Eminent Emmanuel (4) • EnduroSat Balkan-1 • Exolaunch (35) EXOpod Nova CarboNIX || ICEYE Gen3 (4) | Norweigian Space Agency (NOSA) NorSat-4 | OroraTech FOREST-3 | Satellogic ÑuSat-47 | ÑuSat-51 | ÑuSat-52 | Spire Global (6) | Unseenlabs BRO-16 • Impulse Space LEO Express-2 • Inversion Space Ray Demo • Planet Pelican-2 | SuperDove Flock 4g (36) • SEOPS (2) | NRO Otter | Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) | New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Defence Science and Technology (DST) | SAT GUS Space Selfie • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-2 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE A La Vista MACH-TB Suborbital Hypersonic

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) • Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) • Leidos Dynetics Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB)

NASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE and Ice (PREFIRE-2)

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 2 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

NASA Rocket Lab Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE-1)

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 1 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

Classified Rocket Lab Live and Let Fly NROL-123

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) NROL-123 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

SpaceX Transporter-10 Smallsat Rideshare

NO OFFICIAL YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

 

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.5 Flight 5 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 53 Spacecraft • Apex Space Aries Call to Adventure | Orbit Fab | Ubotica CogniSat • Axelspace Pyxis • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 57 • Earth Observant (EOI) Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) (6) • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova (8) CarboNIX (12) | Unseenlabs BRO-12 & BRO-13 | ICEYE Gen3 (3) | Muon Space MuSat-2 | OrbAstro TR2 | Sidus Space LizzieSat-1 • Loft Orbital Yam-6 • New Zealand Space Agency | Rocket Lab | University of Auckland Space Institute Mission Operations Control Centre (MOCC) | MethaneSAT • Maverick Space Systems | Orbital Sidekick (OSK) Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) 4, 5 & 6 • SEOPS | Quantum Space Sentry Scout-1 Spire Global (4) • True Anomaly Mission X Jackals (2) • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit

NASA Rocket Lab Baby Come Back Starling Smallsat Rideshare

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) | 4 NASA Starling (Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde) • Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) DEFIANT | Exolaunch | Telesat LEO 3 Demo | 2 Spire Global Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occulation (GNSS-RO) • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit

Classified Rocket Lab HASTE Scout's Arrow MACH-TB Suborbital Hypersonic Test Flight (DYNAMO-A)

 

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) • Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) • Leidos Dynetics Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) • FCC

SpaceX Transporter-8 Smallsat Rideshare

 

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1071.9 Flight 9 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 72 Spacecraft • D-Orbit Above the Sky ION SCV011 Savvy Simon | ODIN-DU1 Sensor | Alba Orbital Cluster 7 (6) | Lockheed Martin Blackjack Aces-1 / Aces-2 / Aces-3 / Aces-4 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) | ExoTerra Resources Halo Thrusters • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova & CarboNIX (32) | ICEYE Gen3 (4) | Muon Space MuSat-1 | Satlantis GEI-SAT Precursor | Spire Global (3) | Swarm Technologies 14 SpaceBEEs | Turion Space DROID.001 • iQPS QPS-SAR-6 (AMATERU-III) • Launcher Orbiter SN3 | Starfish Space Otter Pup Prototype | Anomaly • Maverick Space Systems | United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) XVI Link-16 | Orbital Sidekick (OSK) Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) 3 • Outpost Ferry Mission 1 (Failure is an Option) • Satellogic Aleph-1 (ÑuSat) (4) • Terran Orbital | ImageSat International (ISI) | RUNNER-1 FASat-Delta • Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) | SatVu HOTSAT-1 • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-1 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • FCC

NASA Rocket Lab Coming to a Storm Near You TROPICS-3

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) • Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) • NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

NASA Rocket Lab Rocket Like a Hurricane TROPICS-2

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) | Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) • NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

SNSA Rocket Lab Catch Me If You Can MATS

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Capture • Curie Kick Stage • Rymdstyrelsen / Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) • Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (MATS) • Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU) • Exolaunch | OHB Sweden InnoSat SML | OHB Sweden • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit

NOAA Rocket Lab It Argos Up From Here Argos-4 A-DCS GAzelle (OTB-3)

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed 3 (OTB-3) • NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Argos-4 • Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) • Hosted Payload Argos Worldwide Data Collection System • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the Moon

 

Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | Explorer • Press Kit

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the Moon

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | Explorer • Press Kit

Rocket Lab There and Back Again Smallsat Rideshare

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket • 26 Launches • Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Capture • Curie Kick Stage • 34 Spacecraft • Alba Orbital Cluster X (4) • Astrix Astronautics • Aurora Propulsion Technologies AuroraSat-1 • E-Space • Spaceflight RL-9 • Swarm Technologies SpaceBEEs • Unseenlabs BRO-6 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit

Schedule of Upcoming Rocket Lab Rocket Launches to Space, Livestreams & Events

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Recent Rocket Lab Rocket Launches to Space & Events

DateMissionNotes
2026-11-02 16:30 UTCRocket Lab The Sea God Surveys QPS-SAR-20 (WADATSUMI-II)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-19 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-10-23 07:11 UTCRocket Lab We're Not Hawking Around HawkEye 360 Cluster 16Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • HawkEye 360 Cluster 16 (16A, 16B, 16C) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-09-26 00:15 UTCRocket Lab Owlright Owlright Owlright StriX-13 #13 (7 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-7 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-09-19 03:22 UTCRocket Lab Owl by The Dozen StriX-12 #12 (6 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-7 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-09-02 12:01 UTCRocket Lab Owl Around The World StriX-8 #11 (5 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-7 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-08-20 13:00 UTCRocket Lab The Lightning God Defends QPS-SAR-18 (SUKUNAMI-II)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-18 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-08-06 09:18 UTCRocket Lab The Grain Goddess Provides (MIKURA-I) QPS-SAR-13Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-13 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-06-26 17:43 UTCRocket Lab Ten Owl Of Ten StriX-8 #10 (4 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-7 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-06-19 10:19 UTCClassified Rocket Lab VICTUS HAZE Puma (TacRS-4)TBC Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Pioneer • Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS-4) • True Anomaly Mission X-3 (MX-3) JACKAL-0004 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-06-11 08:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Curveball Suborbital? HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2026-05-22 09:30 UTCRocket Lab StriX-7 #9 (3 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-7 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-04-23 03:09 UTCJAXA Rocket Lab Kakushin Rising RideshareLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova (39) | JAXA Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-02-26 01:36 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Bubbles Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2026-03-28 09:40 UTCESA Rocket Lab Daughter Of The Stars Celeste LEO-PNT IOD-1 & IOD-2Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | Curie Engine • Exolaunch (5) | ESA Celeste LEO-PNT • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-03-20 18:10 UTCRocket Lab Eight Days A Week StriX-6 #8 (2 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-6 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-03-05 23:53 UTCRocket Lab Insight at Speed is a Friend Indeed BlackSky-25 (3-4)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-02-28 00:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE That's Not A Knife DART AE Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2026-01-30 01:21 UTCRocket Lab Bridging The Swarm NeonSat-1ALaunch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • South Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) NeonSat-1A • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2026-01-22 10:52 UTCRocket Lab The Cosmos Will See You Now RideshareLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Open Cosmos • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2025-12-21 06:36 UTCRocket Lab The Wisdom God Guides QPS-SAR-15 (SUKUNAMI-I)Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-15 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2025-12-18 05:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab Don't Be Such A Square STP-S30 DiskSatLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Space Systems Command (SSC) Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program STP-S30 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • NASA DiskSat | The Aerospace Corporation • Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) • Press Kit • Press Kit
2025-12-14 03:09 UTCJAXA Rocket Lab RAISE and Shine RAISE-4Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • JAXA Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4 | Rapid Innovative Payload Demonstration Satellite-4 (RAISE-4) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-11-20 12:43 UTCConfidential Rocket Lab Follow My Speed BlackSky-24 (3-3)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • BlackSky Gen-3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2025-11-18 13:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Prometheus Run Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2025-11-13 20:55 UTCNASA Blue Origin New Glenn (NG-2) ESCAPADE Blue & GoldLaunch Complex 16 (LC-36) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) • Blue Origin New Glenn Reusable GS1-7E02-1 | Seven BE-4 LOX / LNG Engines • Second Stage | Two BE-3U LOX / LH2 Vacuum Engines • Jacklyn Landing Platform Vessel 1 (LPV1) • Viasat Real-Time Space Relay (RTSR) Demo | Loft Orbital • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) | Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) | Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) • UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) • Rocket Lab ESCAPADE | Twin Photon Explorer Spacecraft | HyperCurie Engine • Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2) Staging Orbit • Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) | Mars | Explorer
2025-11-05 19:51 UTCRocket Lab The Nation God Navigates QPS-SAR-14 (YACHIHOKO-I)Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-14 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-10-14 16:33 UTCRocket Lab Owl New World StriX-5 #7 (1 of 21)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-5 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-09-29 23:45 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Justin Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2025-09-24 11:30 UTCNASA SpaceX IMAP SWFO-L1 Carruthers RideshareLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1096.2 Flight 2 • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) • NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) | Princeton University • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) | Ball Aerospace | Rocket Lab • NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory | GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere) • Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1)
2025-09-23 00:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Jenna Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2025-08-23 22:42 UTCRocket Lab Live, Laugh, Launch EchoStar Lyra-2Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2025-08-05 04:10 UTCRocket Lab The Harvest Goddess Thrives QPS-SAR-12 (KUSHINADA-I)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-12 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-06-28 07:08 UTCRocket Lab Symphony In The Stars EchoStar Lyra-4Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2025-06-26 17:28 UTCRocket Lab Get The Hawk Outta Here HawkEye 360 Cluster 12 & Kestrel-0ALaunch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • HawkEye 360 Cluster 12 (12A, 12B, 12C) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-06-11 15:31 UTCRocket Lab The Mountain God Guards QPS-SAR-11 (YAMATSUMI-I)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-11 (YAMATSUMI-I) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-06-02 23:57 UTCRocket Lab Full Stream Ahead BlackSky-23 (3-2)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • BlackSky Gen-3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-05-17 08:17 UTCRocket Lab The Sea God Sees QPS-SAR-10 (WADATSUMI-I)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-10 (WADATSUMI-I) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-03-26 15:30 UTCRocket Lab Finding Hot Wildfires Near You OTC-P1Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) • OroraTech Constellation Phase 1 (OTC-P1) | Exolaunch EXOpod Nova | Spire Global • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-03-18 01:31 UTCRocket Lab High Five Kinéis-5 (21-25)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • 5 Kinéis • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-03-15 06:43 UTCSpaceX Transporter-13 Smallsat RideshareSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.13 Flight 13 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 74 Spacecraft • Albedo Clarity-1 (VLEO) • Alba Orbital Cluster 9 (5) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 61 TRYAD-1 & TRAYAD-2 | Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 64 Montana State University (MSU) Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) • Exolaunch (27) EXOpod Nova CarboNIX Quadro | HEO Holmes & Adler | ICEYE Gen4 X46 X48 X50 X51 (4) | Loft Orbital Yam-8 | Sidus Space LizzieSat-3 | Spire Global (7) | Turion Space DROID.002 | U-Space SOAP & PANDORE (2) • NASA Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) (3) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL] • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Advanced Systems & Technology Directorate (AS&T) (6) • SEOPS (23) | ISISPACE | Maverick Space Systems | 2024-BLAZE (3) • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-3 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit
2025-03-15 00:00 UTCRocket Lab The Lightning God Reigns QPS-SAR-9 (SUSANOO-I)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-9 (SUSANOO-I) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-02-18 23:17 UTCRocket Lab Fasten Your Space Belts BlackSky-22 (3-1)Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • BlackSky Gen-3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-02-08 20:43 UTCRocket Lab IoT 4 You and Me Kinéis-4 (16-20)Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • 5 Kinéis • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2025-01-14 19:09 UTCSpaceX Transporter-12 Smallsat RideshareSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1088.2 Flight 2 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 131 Spacecraft • Alba Orbital Cluster 8 (7) • D-Orbit Endless Sky ION SCV014 Amazing Antonius (8) & Ascend ION SCV016 Eminent Emmanuel (4) • EnduroSat Balkan-1 • Exolaunch (35) EXOpod Nova CarboNIX || ICEYE Gen3 (4) | Norweigian Space Agency (NOSA) NorSat-4 | OroraTech FOREST-3 | Satellogic ÑuSat-47 | ÑuSat-51 | ÑuSat-52 | Spire Global (6) | Unseenlabs BRO-16 • Impulse Space LEO Express-2 • Inversion Space Ray Demo • Planet Pelican-2 | SuperDove Flock 4g (36) • SEOPS (2) | NRO Otter | Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) | New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Defence Science and Technology (DST) | SAT GUS Space Selfie • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-2 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit
2024-12-21 14:17 UTCRocket Lab Owl The Way Up StriX-2 #6Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-6 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-12-14 01:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HAST Stonehenge Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE)
2024-11-25 03:55 UTCRocket Lab Ice AIS Baby Kinéis-3 (11-15)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • 5 Kinéis • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-11-24 06:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE A La Vista MACH-TB Suborbital HypersonicLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) • Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) • Leidos Dynetics Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB)
2024-11-05 10:54 UTCConfidential Rocket Lab Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes Protosat-1Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • E-Space • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2024-09-20 23:01 UTCRocket Lab Kinéis Killed The RadIOT Star Kinéis-2 (6-10)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • 5 Kinéis • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-08-11 13:18 UTCRocket Lab A Sky Full of SARS Capella-13 (Acadia-3)Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Capella Space Acadia • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-08-02 16:39 UTCRocket Lab Owl For One, One For Owl StriX-4 #5Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-06-20 18:13 UTCRocket Lab No Time Toulouse Kinéis-1 (1-5)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • 50th Launch Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • 5 Kinéis • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-06-05 03:15 UTCNASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE and Ice (PREFIRE-2)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 2 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-05-25 07:41 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE-1)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 1 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-04-23 22:32 UTCRocket Lab Beginning Of The Swarm NeonSat-1 NASA ACS3 RideshareLaunch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • South Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) NeonSat-1 • Exolaunch EXOpod | NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-03-21 07:25 UTCClassified Rocket Lab Live and Let Fly NROL-123Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) NROL-123 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-03-12 15:03 UTCRocket Lab Owl Night Long StriX-3Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2024-03-04 22:05 UTCSpaceX Transporter-10 Smallsat RideshareSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.5 Flight 5 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 53 Spacecraft • Apex Space Aries Call to Adventure | Orbit Fab | Ubotica CogniSat • Axelspace Pyxis • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 57 • Earth Observant (EOI) Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) (6) • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova (8) CarboNIX (12) | Unseenlabs BRO-12 & BRO-13 | ICEYE Gen3 (3) | Muon Space MuSat-2 | OrbAstro TR2 | Sidus Space LizzieSat-1 • Loft Orbital Yam-6 • New Zealand Space Agency | Rocket Lab | University of Auckland Space Institute Mission Operations Control Centre (MOCC) | MethaneSAT • Maverick Space Systems | Orbital Sidekick (OSK) Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) 4, 5 & 6 • SEOPS | Quantum Space Sentry Scout-1 Spire Global (4) • True Anomaly Mission X Jackals (2) • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit
2024-02-18 14:52 UTCRocket Lab On Closer Inspection ADRAS-J CRD2Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Commercial Debris Removal Demonstration (CRD2) • Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2024-01-31 06:34 UTCRocket Lab Four of a Kind NorthStar-1 (1-4 of 12)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova | Spire Global | 4 NorthStar Earth & Space • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-12-15 04:05 UTCRocket Lab The Moon God Awakens QPS-SAR-5 (TSUKUYOMI-I)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Return to Flight Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • iQPS QPS-SAR-5 (TSUKUYOMI-I) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-09-19 06:55 UTCRocket Lab We Will Never Desert You Capella-12 (Acadia-2)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Capella Space Acadia-2 • Second Stage Anomaly • Press Kit
2023-08-23 23:45 UTCRocket Lab We Love the Nightlife Capella-11 (Acadia-1)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Capella Space Acadia-1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-07-18 01:27 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Baby Come Back Starling Smallsat RideshareLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) | 4 NASA Starling (Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde) • Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) DEFIANT | Exolaunch | Telesat LEO 3 Demo | 2 Spire Global Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occulation (GNSS-RO) • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit
2023-06-18 01:24 UTCClassified Rocket Lab HASTE Scout's Arrow MACH-TB Suborbital Hypersonic Test Flight (DYNAMO-A)Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Rutherford | Modified Curie Kick Stage • Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) • Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) • Leidos Dynetics Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) • FCC
2023-06-12 21:35 UTCSpaceX Transporter-8 Smallsat RideshareSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1071.9 Flight 9 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Transporter | 72 Spacecraft • D-Orbit Above the Sky ION SCV011 Savvy Simon | ODIN-DU1 Sensor | Alba Orbital Cluster 7 (6) | Lockheed Martin Blackjack Aces-1 / Aces-2 / Aces-3 / Aces-4 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) | ExoTerra Resources Halo Thrusters • Exolaunch EXOpod Nova & CarboNIX (32) | ICEYE Gen3 (4) | Muon Space MuSat-1 | Satlantis GEI-SAT Precursor | Spire Global (3) | Swarm Technologies 14 SpaceBEEs | Turion Space DROID.001 • iQPS QPS-SAR-6 (AMATERU-III) • Launcher Orbiter SN3 | Starfish Space Otter Pup Prototype | Anomaly • Maverick Space Systems | United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) XVI Link-16 | Orbital Sidekick (OSK) Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) 3 • Outpost Ferry Mission 1 (Failure is an Option) • Satellogic Aleph-1 (ÑuSat) (4) • Terran Orbital | ImageSat International (ISI) | RUNNER-1 FASat-Delta • Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) | SatVu HOTSAT-1 • Varda Space Industries Winnebago-1 | Rocket Lab Photon Pioneer • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • FCC
2023-05-26 03:46 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Coming to a Storm Near You TROPICS-3Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) • Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) • NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-05-08 01:00 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Rocket Like a Hurricane TROPICS-2Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) | Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) • NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-03-24 09:14 UTCRocket Lab The Beat Goes On BlackSky-20 & BlackSky-21Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Spaceflight RL-12 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2023-03-16 22:38 UTCRocket Lab Stronger Together Capella-9 (Whitney-7) & Capella-10 (Whitney-8)Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Capella Space Whitney • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit • FCC
2023-01-24 23:00 UTCRocket Lab Virginia is for Launch Lovers LC-2 First Launch HawkEye 360First Launch Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) | Launch Complex 0 Pad C (LP-0C) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • HawkEye 360 Cluster 6 (6A, 6B, 6C) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2022-11-04 17:27 UTCSNSA Rocket Lab Catch Me If You Can MATSLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Capture • Curie Kick Stage • Rymdstyrelsen / Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) • Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (MATS) • Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU) • Exolaunch | OHB Sweden InnoSat SML | OHB Sweden • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit
2022-10-07 17:09 UTCNOAA Rocket Lab It Argos Up From Here Argos-4 A-DCS GAzelle (OTB-3)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed 3 (OTB-3) • NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Argos-4 • Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) • Hosted Payload Argos Worldwide Data Collection System • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2022-09-21 17:30 UTCRocket Lab Investor Day 2022Rocket Lab Investors • Rocket Lab Neutron Rocket • Press Kit
2022-09-15 20:38 UTCRocket Lab The Owl Spreads Its Wings StriX-1Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2022-08-04 05:00 UTCClassified Rocket Lab Antipodean Adventure NROL-199 (RASR-4)Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) NROL-199 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2022-07-13 06:30 UTCClassified Rocket Lab Wise One Looks Ahead NROL-162 (RASR-3)Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) NROL-162 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit • Press Kit
2022-07-04 06:56 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the MoonLunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | Explorer • Press Kit
2022-06-28 09:55 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the MoonLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) • NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) • NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) • NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) • Terran Orbital • Advanced Space • Stellar Exploration • Low-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | Explorer • Press Kit
2022-05-02 22:49 UTCRocket Lab There and Back Again Smallsat RideshareLaunch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket • 26 Launches • Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Capture • Curie Kick Stage • 34 Spacecraft • Alba Orbital Cluster X (4) • Astrix Astronautics • Aurora Propulsion Technologies AuroraSat-1 • E-Space • Spaceflight RL-9 • Swarm Technologies SpaceBEEs • Unseenlabs BRO-6 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit
2022-04-02 12:41 UTCRocket Lab Without Mission A Beat BlackSky-18 & BlackSky-19Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Spaceflight RL-11 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit
2022-02-28 20:37 UTCRocket Lab The Owl's Night Continues StriX-βFirst Launch at Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Synspective StriX-β • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit
2021-12-09 00:02 UTCRocket Lab A Date With Destiny BlackSky-16 & BlackSky-17Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Spaceflight RL-10 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit
2021-11-18 01:39 UTCRocket Lab Love At First Insight BlackSky-14 & BlackSky-15Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Electron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick Stage • Spaceflight RL-8 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit

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