18 December 2025, 05:03 UTC
Don't Be Such A Square (STP-S30)
Rocket Lab's 'Don't Be Such A Square' mission launched the STP-S30 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Wallops Island, Virginia, deploying four NASA-funded DiskSat technology demonstrators, manhole-cover-shaped satellite buses built by The Aerospace Corporation, to a 550 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12 kg
- Flight
- 72nd
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 2025, 05:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Electron
- Builder
- Rocket Lab
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Technology
- International designator
- 2025-305
- Launches in 2025
- 317th of 329
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