Rocket Lab launching 100th space mission early on Nov. 14: Watch it live
Rocket Lab will launch its 100th space mission shortly after midnight on Saturday (Nov. 14), and you can watch the milestone liftoff live.
Rocket Lab is set to launch its 100th space mission on November 14, 2022, with a 59-foot-tall Electron rocket carrying a Japanese Earth-observing satellite. The launch, dubbed "The Mountain God Rises," is scheduled to take place at 12:30 a.m. EST (0530 GMT; 6:30 p.m. local time) from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site. The milestone launch is being described as an unprecedented achievement for a commercial small-lift orbital rocket, with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck emphasizing the company's impressive 96% reliability rate across 99 launches.
The special edition rocket will be adorned with black and golden paint, signifying its historic moment. The mission, for Tokyo-based iQPS, will deploy a single satellite into a low Earth orbit, with Electron's upper kick stage deploying it at an altitude of 357 miles (575 kilometers) above Earth.
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