Electron | Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket Lab's 83rd launch · 4th this year · humanity's 7,220th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Mar 5, 23:53 – Mar 6, 01:53 UTC
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Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)
Note: Payload and customer identities were not publicly announced. 4th of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
Earth Science · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/6/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/5/2026 · source
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
LL2 · 3/5/2026 · source
Updated launch weather, 80% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/5/2026 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/5/2026 · source
Adding launch NET 2024
Nosu · 8/10/2023 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Local pad time: Mar 6, 12:53 PM GMT+13
41 launches from this pad · 78 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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