It's launch day for Electron and @QPS_Inc with our 92nd rocket on the pad at Launch Complex 1.
'The Grain Goddess Provides' will deploy the latest QPS-SAR-13 satellite to a 575km LEO to join iQPS' growing Earth-imaging constellation🛰️
Launch window opens:
🚀1:00 p.m. NZST
🚀10:00 a.m. JST
🚀01:00 UTC
🚀9:00 p.m. EST (June 30)
🚀6:00 p.m. PST (June 30)
Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium Communications Inc – one of the most transformative deals in the space industry.
By combining our launch capability and satellite manufacturing with @IridiumComm’s global satellite communications network and rare spectrum, Rocket Lab becomes a fully integrated, self-launching, tier-1 space power, delivering critical communications capability to millions of users worldwide.
Full details and important information: https://t.co/hj5aWrDPjz
Where others promise responsiveness, we deliver it with Electron - repeatedly.
With reliable rockets, a steady production line, launch sites we control, and an experienced team that moves quickly, we deliver every piece that matters for responding fast to the nation's most important missions.
This mission is a bold demonstration of American ingenuity that could change how we maintain, upgrade, and operate spacecraft for years to come.
Every new capability we prove today expands what’s possible tomorrow.
Plug has completed commissioning of a 5 MW GenEco PEM electrolyzer system at European Energy’s Måde PtX facility in Denmark, advancing hydrogen production and supporting Europe’s growing hydrogen economy: https://t.co/yWaKyNSPU9
Tactically responsive space launch 🤝 Commercial satellite with RPO capability
Rocket Lab is the first and only company to deliver both for a Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission by the @USSpaceForce and @USSF_SSC with VICTUS HAZE.
That means we designed and built the spacecraft, launched it on our own rocket, and now we're operating it on orbit. That's end-to-end space capability in action.
The VICTUS HAZE mission explained.
Phase 1: Launch on demand 🚀 The @USSpaceForce's @USSF_SSC called, told us to launch, and just 16 hours 42 minutes hours later, Electron successfully left the pad from LC-1.
Phase 2: 🛰️ With Pioneer spacecraft checkouts complete 34 hours ahead of schedule, the chase is on to rendezvous with another satellite on orbit; one that doesn't want to be found.
The Space Force called, and we launched. From call up to lift-off in just 16 hours 42 minutes 🎯 Rocket Lab has made history - the fastest response time ever for a @USSF_SSC Tactically Responsive Space mission.
Payload integration complete. The StriX satellite for @synspective has been encapsulated on Electron ahead of our next mission to low Earth orbit for their Earth-imaging constellation.
'Ten Owl Of Ten' - our 90th Electron launch - is scheduled for launch NET June 18 NZT.