Rocket Lab Launches Blacksky Gen-3 Satellite on 60th Electron Flight
18 Feb 2025
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SPACEFLIGHT NOW: Rocket Lab completed its second Electron rocket of the month and its 60th to date. The flight carried with it the first of BlackSky’s Gen-3 Earth imaging and analytics gathering satellites.
Liftoff of the mission, dubbed ‘Fasten Your Space Belts,’ from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand happened at 12:17 p.m. NZDT on Feb. 19 (6:17 p.m. EST, 2317 UCT on Feb. 18).
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