● Launch Successful
Electron | We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)
Rocket Lab · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Rocket Lab's 98th launch
- 57th consecutive success
- 44th flight from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
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The Mission
HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).
| Liftoff (NET) | Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:11:00 UTC |
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| Launch window | 07:00:00 UTC – 08:45:00 UTC |
| Target orbit | Sun-Synchronous Orbit |
| Status | Launch Successful |
Launch Library 2 · fetched Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:53:27 GMT
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