Rocket Lab plans to launch a hush-hush mission early Monday morning (Nov. 4), and you’ll watch the motion stay.
The mission, for a “confidential business buyer,” is about to carry off atop an Electron car from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand web site on Monday at 5:30 a.m. EST (0930 GMT).
Rocket Lab will webcast the launch stay, starting half-hour earlier than liftoff. House.com will carry the feed if Rocket Lab makes it out there.
Monday’s mission, which Rocket Lab calls “‘Modifications in Latitudes, Modifications in Attitudes,” will ship one business satellite tv for pc to low Earth orbit.
That is just about all we find out about it, nevertheless; the corporate didn’t present additional info, presumably on the request of its unnamed buyer.
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“Modifications in Latitudes, Modifications in Attitudes” will likely be Rocket Lab’s twelfth launch of 2024 and 54th total. All of those missions have been carried out by the 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron, which is designed to provide small satellites devoted rides to Earth orbit or past. (An Electron launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission, which despatched a cubesat to the moon.)
However that can change quickly, if all goes based on plan: Rocket Lab is creating a bigger, partially reusable rocket known as Neutron, which is anticipated to debut subsequent yr.
