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.
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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.)
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