HASTE | Curveball
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Rocket Lab's 89th launch · 10th this year · humanity's 7,308th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jun 11, 04:00 – Jun 11, 09:15 UTC
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Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD. Note: Despite reported as a strictly sub-orbital launch program, this launch was cataloged by the USSF to have left 2 rocket stages in a 200 km, 40° very low Earth orbit by the US Space Force. The payload was not cataloged and may have been deliberately de-orbited.
Government/Top Secret · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/12/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/11/2026 · source
Hold, awaiting propellant losding,
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/11/2026 · source
Added launch per air space closure notices (see also https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2062237394133246409).
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/4/2026 · source
