Just days after our most recent mission from Virginia, Electron is on the pad at LC-1 ready for launch today for a confidential commercial customer.
'Insight at Speed is a Friend Indeed' is scheduled for liftoff:
🚀 12:53 pm NZDT, March 6
🚀 6:53 pm ET, March 5
🚀 3:53 pm PT, March 5
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Wet Dress Rehearsal is complete and Electron is ready for its 1st launch of the year with Open Cosmos - though strong winds are a watch item for the launch attempt tomorrow.
Launch window opens:
🚀 12:09 am NZDT, Jan 21
🚀 6:09 am ET, Jan 20
🚀 03:09 am PT, Jan 20
🚀 11:09 am GMT, Jan 20
Electron's first mission of the year is scheduled for launch from LC-1 in just 5 days' time.
"The Cosmos Will See You Now" is launching for Open Cosmos to a 1,050km orbit with 2x spacecraft.
Launch window opens 12:09 am NZDT, Jan 21
✅ Record launch year with 21 launches + 100% mission success
✅Opened LC-3
✅Qualified Neutron's Fairing & 2nd stage
✅ ESCAPADE on the way to Mars
✅Acquired Geost
✅Awarded $816M contract by SDA to make more sats for PWSA, our largest contract ever.
We're ready to make 2026 even bigger
Welcome to launch day. Again!
Less than 48 hours after our last Electron mission was on the pad at LC-1, this time we're ready to liftoff for @KAISTPR.
🚀9:55 am KST
🚀7:55 pm EST
🚀4:55 pm PST
🚀00:55 UTC
🚀1:55 pm NZT
MISSION SUCCESS! Payload deployment confirmed for Electron's 77th launch, releasing JAXA's RAISE-4 satellite to a 540km LEO 🛰️🚀
Launch update: Our next Electron launch from LC-1 will be a dedicated mission for KAIST. The launch window for ‘Bridging The Swarm’ will open Thursday Dec 11 NZDT.
🚀 1:45pm, Dec 11 NZDT
🚀 00:45, Dec 11 UTC
🚀 9:45am, Dec 11 KST
🚀 7:45pm, Dec 10 ET
🚀 4:45pm, Dec 10 PT
We've been awarded R&D funding from Canadian Space Agency to build a new medium-class reaction wheel for larger satellites.
Reaction wheels point and steady spacecraft in orbit and ours have delivered 20+ years of flight heritage keeping 300+ missions on target. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3KNFTFI
We've completed qualification & acceptance testing of the Hungry Hippo fairing for Neutron 🚀 With the design, structure, and operations of Neutron's fixed reusable fairing and upper module now proven out, Hungry Hippo is ready for launch.
So you’re in space and on the way to Mars, what next? Time to fire up the engines 🛰️🛰️
Learn more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/4p8DHYf
We’ve completed payload integration and encapsulation at LC-1 with JAXA for our 77th Electron launch.
Next up: Wet Dress Rehearsal for the “RAISE and Shine" mission before the launch window opens on December 5 UTC.
WTF 🤬
Blue and Gold are now more than a million kilometers from Earth on their way to Mars 🛰️🛰️
Great for NYC!
MISSION SUCCESS! Payload deployment is confirmed for the ‘Follow My Speed’ mission.
✅ 2nd launch in 48 hours
✅ 18th launch this year
✅ 76th launch in total
✅ 100% mission success in 2025
NASA's got eyes on Blue and Gold as they journey to Mars 🛰️🛰️👀
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
View from the pad of our latest launch from LC-2.
With HASTE, we're proud to be unblocking the hypersonic test bottleneck with regular commercial launches, lowering the cost and increasing the tempo of hypersonic test flights for the U.S. and its allies.
Cowza!
🛰️🛰️ The twins are talking!
We have successfully established contact with both ESCAPADE spacecraft, 💙 Blue and 💛 Gold, following launch on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket today.
We're on our way to Mars to enable NASA and UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab to study the Martian magnetosphere!
The countdown to Mars in ON! Today our twin spacecraft for NASA and UCB's ESCAPADE mission are set to lift off from Cape Canaveral.
🚀 2:57 PM EST
🚀 19:57 UTC
Mission info: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/esc...
Launch webcast starts at T-20 mins: blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
Sow what you reap. Sad times ahead
How my 2 cats react to any bear that sniffs at my windows!
Today’s the day we go to Mars. Who’s ready? The countdown is on for ESCAPADE’s launch, set to lift off from Cape Canaveral NET: 🚀 2:45 PM EST / 🚀 19:45 UTC
Find out more about our mission with NASA and @ucbssl.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qWB519
📷: Blue Origin
