Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution economy satellite on the or her orbit of low Earth on this evening (February 18).
The first “Jean -3” satellite carrying satellite for Geosal Intelligence Company Blackski, from the New Zealand site of Rocket Lab, removed from EST (2317 GMT; 12:17 pm on 19 February from local New Zealand Time) given. ,
Electron deployed the satellite in a circular orbit in 292 miles (470 km) as a lift deed about 55.5 minutes later as a lift, as planned, the rocket lab announced through X.
Rocket Lab, which prefers to give its launch a fickle name, today’s mission is called “Faste Your Space Belt”.
Rocket Lab wrote in a prelonch mission description, “Faste Your Space Belts’ will launch the ninth launch of Rocket Lab which will be overall for Blackski in several launch contracts starting from 2019.” “Mission will introduce its latest 35 cm high-resolution gene-3 satellites in orbit, allowing them to enhance and optimize their geopolitical intelligence abilities.”
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Payload finance was confirmed! This is the success of the mission for the 60th launch of the electron, welcome to space, @blacksky_inc pic.twitter.com/xpgwxcgutgFebruary 19, 2025
The “Faste Your Space Belt” Rocket Lab had the second launch of 2025. The company launched a total of 16 missions last year -14 59-Foot-Lumb (18 meters) with electrons and with two haste, rocket with a modified, suborbital version that serves as a test for hypersonic technology .
“Faste Your Space Belt” was part of a spaceflight One-Two Panch today. SpaceX launched another batch of its starlink internet satellites four minutes later, at 6:21 pm at EST (2321 GMT).
editor’s Note: The story was updated on EST at 6:30 pm with the news of successful liftoff.