Powerful Vulcan Centaur rocket launching for 1st time in 9 months Nov. 14: Watch it live
Rocket Lab will launch its 100th space mission early Saturday morning (Nov.
Key points
- And it's hitting the century mark in record-breaking fashion: No commercially developed rocket has gotten there faster, not even SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, according to Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck.
- Electron is all dressed up for launch 100," Rocket Lab said via X on Tuesday (Nov.
- "It's an unprecedented milestone for a commercial small-lift orbital rocket, and a threshold rarely crossed in modern spaceflight," Beck said on Monday (Nov.
You can watch it live via Rocket Lab here, and Space.com will carry the feed if, as expected, it's made available.
The mission, which Rocket Lab calls "The Mountain God Rises," will be the 100th to date for the California-based company.
Additional details
- You can watch all of this action live here at Space.com when the time comes.
- A Vulcan Centaur topped with 40 Amazon Leo internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov.
- Rocket Lab launched for the first time in May 2017, sending the brand-new Electron up on a test flight from New Zealand.
- Not all of Rocket Lab's missions have gone orbital, it should be noted: A suborbital variant of Electron known as HASTE, which customers use to test technologies in a hypersonic flight environment, has nine missions under its belt to date.
- An Electron rocket topped with a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Saturday, during a window that opens at 12:30 a.m.
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