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

Unveiling a first major artifact of the Kent Kresa Space Gallery: the Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle! 🚀 Electron went on public view for the very first time in the Science Center’s temporary Work in Progress Gallery, where guests had the opportunity to view it horizontally. Now, in the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, you’ll see Electron displayed vertically, using a structural support gantry. 🤩 At 59 feet long, the Electron rocket will be fully visible from the lower level galle

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the NROL-123 mission from the company's Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on March 21, 2024 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT). Full Story 👉 https://trib.al/zSyFNLn "NROL-123 sent three research missions skyward, Rocket Lab representatives said during the company's launch webcast on Thursday and that's pretty much all we know about the payloads," according to Space.com. Credit: Rocket Lab | Space.com