5 March 2026, 23:53 UTC
Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)
Carried a single satellite for a confidential commercial customer, widely reported to be a BlackSky Gen-3 imaging satellite, to a roughly 470 km orbit on the mission 'Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed,' Rocket Lab's 83rd Electron launch, from Mahia, New Zealand.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 138 kg
- Flight
- 76th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 5 March 2026, 23:53 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
- 2026-043
- Launches in 2026
- 47th of 243
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