11 June 2025, 15:31 UTC
The Mountain God Guards (iQPS Launch 3)
The Mountain God Guards mission deployed QPS-SAR-11 'Yamatsumi-I', a synthetic aperture radar Earth-imaging satellite for Japanese operator iQPS, to a 575 km orbit from Mahia, New Zealand — Rocket Lab's second iQPS launch in under a month.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 120 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 63rd
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 11 June 2025, 15:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2025-125
- Launches in 2025
- 131st of 329
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