Mahia Launch Tracker
As of 23 October 2026, 15 of the 249 orbital launch attempts in 2026 lifted off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula, 6% of the world's launches, after 17 in 2025 and 13 in 2024, and 84 since the first in 2017. The next launch from Mahia is We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360) on Electron, scheduled for 23 October 2026 at 07:00 AM UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The latest launches from Mahia and the next ones on the schedule, drawn to scale.
Latest mission
Earth Science
Electron
Sep 26, 2026
Rocket Lab's Electron Owlright Owlright Owlright mission delivered Synspective's 13th StriX synthetic-aperture-radar satellite into a 559 km, 37-degree low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. It was Electron's 97th flight and 18th of 2026, extending a 13-for-13 dedicated StriX success streak seven days after the previous satellite.
Next mission
We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)
Electron
Oct 23, 2026 · 07:00 AM (UTC)
Liftoff in 05 h 37 min 52 s
A dedicated Electron from Launch Complex 1 will deploy three HawkEye 360 HAWK satellites to a 520 km, 97-degree orbit. Flying as a cluster, they detect and geolocate radio-frequency signals for maritime tracking, GNSS-jamming detection, and civil signals intelligence.
Statistics summary
Payload to orbit
2026 so far
2 t
vs 2 t by this date in 2025
Last 7 days
0 t
vs 0.0 t weekly avg. over 365 days
Every Mahia launch scheduled for the next seven days, in UTC.
Mahia in 2026
Orbital launches from Mahia per month, 2026 so far
- 2Jan
- 0Feb
- 3Mar
- 1Apr
- 1May
- 2Jun
- 0Jul
- 2Aug
- 4Sep
- 0Oct
- Nov
- Dec
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| Month | Mahia |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 0 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 0 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 0 |
The record
- Share in 2026
- 6%
- so far
- Launches in 2026
- 15
- of 249 worldwide
- Share in 2025
- 5%
- 17 launches
- All time
- 84
- since 2017
Orbital launches from Mahia per year, 2017 to today
2026 so far, as of 23 October 2026.
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| Year | Launches |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 17 |
| 2026 | 15 |
Rockets flown from Mahia in 2026
Pads
| Pad | In 2026 | All time | Last used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A | 8 | 43 | 2026 |
| Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B | 7 | 41 | 2026 |