2024-11-25 03:55 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Classified Rocket Lab HASTE A La Vista MACH-TB Suborbital Hypersonic Test Flight 2 | 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) |
2024-11-05 10:54 UTC | Confidential Rocket Lab Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes Protosat-1 | 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 • E-Space • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) |
2024-09-20 23:01 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket Lab Owl For One, One For Owl StriX-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 • Synspective StriX-4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit |
2024-06-20 18:13 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | 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 |
2024-05-25 07:41 UTC | 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 |
2024-04-23 22:32 UTC | Rocket Lab Beginning Of The Swarm NeonSat-1 NASA ACS3 Rideshare | 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 • 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 UTC | 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 |
2024-03-12 15:03 UTC | Rocket Lab Owl Night Long StriX-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 • Synspective StriX-3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit |
2024-03-04 22:05 UTC | SpaceX Transporter-10 Smallsat Rideshare | 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 | 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 Jackals (2) • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit |
2024-02-18 14:52 UTC | Rocket Lab On Closer Inspection ADRAS-J CRD2 | 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 • 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 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | 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 |
2023-06-18 01:24 UTC | 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 |
2023-06-12 21:35 UTC | 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 (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 (4 ÑuSat) • 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 UTC | 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 |
2023-05-08 01:00 UTC | 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 |
2023-03-24 09:14 UTC | Rocket Lab The Beat Goes On BlackSky-20 & BlackSky-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 • Spaceflight RL-12 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit |
2023-03-16 22:38 UTC | Rocket 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 UTC | Rocket Lab Virginia is for Launch Lovers LC-2 First Launch HawkEye 360 | First 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 UTC | 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 |
2022-10-07 17:09 UTC | 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 |
2022-09-21 17:30 UTC | Rocket Lab Investor Day 2022 | Rocket Lab Investors • Rocket Lab Neutron Rocket • Press Kit |
2022-09-15 20:38 UTC | Rocket Lab The Owl Spreads Its Wings StriX-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 • Synspective StriX-1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit |
2022-08-04 05:00 UTC | Classified 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 UTC | Classified 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 UTC | 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 |
2022-06-28 09:55 UTC | 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 |
2022-05-02 22:49 UTC | 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 |
2022-04-02 12:41 UTC | Rocket Lab Without Mission A Beat BlackSky-18 & BlackSky-19 | 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 • Spaceflight RL-11 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Press Kit |
2022-02-28 20:37 UTC | Rocket Lab The Owl's Night Continues StriX-β | First 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 UTC | Rocket Lab A Date With Destiny BlackSky-16 & BlackSky-17 | 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 • Spaceflight RL-10 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit |
2021-11-18 01:39 UTC | Rocket Lab Love At First Insight BlackSky-14 & BlackSky-15 | 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 • Spaceflight RL-8 • BlackSky Gen-2 • Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit • Press Kit |