15 March 2025, 00:00 UTC
The Lightning God Reigns (iQPS Launch 1)
Rocket Lab's 'The Lightning God Reigns' mission deployed the QPS-SAR-9 radar imaging satellite for Japanese operator iQPS to a 575 km circular orbit, the first of eight Electron launches booked by the company.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 120 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 58th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 15 March 2025, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2025-050
- Launches in 2025
- 52nd of 329
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