🚀 Rocket Lab’s 70th Electron Launch: A Night of Precision and Progress On the evening of August 23, 2025, Rocket Lab marked a major milestone with the successful launch of its 70th Electron mission, aptly named Live, Laugh, Launch. Liftoff occurred at 22:42 UTC from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, reinforcing Electron’s reputation as the world’s most frequently launched small orbital rocket. This mission deployed five satellites into a 655 km circular orbit for a confidential commercial

January 22, 2026: Rocket Lab has launched The "The Cosmos Will See You Now" mission, aboard its Electron/Curie rocket from its Launch Complex 1A in New Zealand, sending the first two satellites for Open Cosmos' secure LEO broadband constellation. This was Rocket Lab's 1st launch of the year, and 80th overall. | NASASpaceflight.com

Rocket Lab has launched the Live, Laugh, Launch mission, aboard its Electron/Curie rocket, at 10:42am NZST Sunday (10:42pm UTC Saturday) from its Launch Complex 1A in New Zealand, sending the EchoStar Lyra-2 satellite (and four other confidential payloads) to sun-synchronous orbit. This is Rocket Lab and Electron’s 12th mission of 2025 and 70th overall. [Video Credit 🎥: Rocket Lab] | NASASpaceflight.com

Red is for recovery... it’s time to bring another rocket back from space! We’ll be attempting to splash down and recover Electron’s first stage during our next mission - and for the first time, a helicopter will be stationed in the recovery zone to simulate a mid-air intercept in preparation for future recovery missions. This will be our third ocean recovery mission as we get closer to our ultimate goal of launch, catch, repeat. The booster for this 22nd Electron mission is going through final p

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