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HASTE | That's Not A Knife (DART AE)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Rocket Lab's 82nd launch · 3rd this year
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Feb 27, 21:00 – Feb 28, 00:45 UTC
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That's Not A Knife (DART AE)
Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.
Government/Top Secret · Suborbital (Sub)
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No booster details available.
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Updates
Mission success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/28/2026 · source
Payload separation.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/28/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/28/2026 · source
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2026 · source
Hold at T-2:56.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2026 · source
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2026 · source
Hold at T-2:55.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2026 · source
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
LL2 · 2/27/2026 · source
New T-0 due to upper level winds.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/27/2026 · source
GO for launch on February 27.
Cosmic_Penguin · 2/26/2026 · source
Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)
Local pad time: Feb 27, 7:00 PM EST
13 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
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