Seldom Bucket
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Rocket Lab just launched seven small satellites to Earth orbit, including one of its own spacecraft designed to help pave the way for future missions to Venus and the moon.
A Rocket Lab Electron booster lifted off from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand Monday (March 22) at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT, or 11:30 a.m. March 23 local time), on a mission dubbed "They Go Up So Fast."
"They really do go up so fast, with a beautiful liftoff of Electron from the pad at Launch Complex 1," Rocket Lab propulsion engineering manager Scott Mohler said during today's launch webcast. (Launch Complex 2, which Rocket Lab recently finished building in Virginia, is expected to host its first liftoff this year.)
Rocket Lab launches 7 satellites to orbit
Rocket Lab has now delivered a total of 104 satellites to Earth orbit.
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