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Welcome to launch day! Here's everything you need to know about our 47th Electron launch.
Beginning Of The Swarm (B.T.S)
NEONSAT-1 for @kaistpr & the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System for @NASA @NASAAmes
520km & 1,000km orbits

Lift-off time:
Weds 24 NZT | 10:15
Tue 23 UTC | 22:15
Tue 23 EDT | 18:15
Tues 23 PDT | 15:15

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Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle launched the "Beginning Of The Swarm" mission, NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) and KAIST's NeonSat-1 Earth observation satellite, from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, on 23 April 2024, at 22:32 UTC (24 April, at 10:32 NZST).

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https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/

Mission Name: Ready, Aim, PREFIRE
Rocket: Electron
Launch Date: NET May 22, 2024
Launch Site: Launch Complex 1
Launch Time: TBC
Payload: PREFIRE-1

Mission Overview

Ready, Aim, PREFIRE is the first of two back-to-back Electron launches to deploy NASA's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.

The two dedicated missions will each deploy one satellite to a 525km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The first mission – named 'Ready, Aim, PREFIRE' – is scheduled to launch no earlier than May 22, 2024. The launch date of the second mission – named 'PREFIRE And Ice' – will be scheduled to take place within three weeks of the successful deployment of the first PREFIRE mission.

NASA's PREFIRE mission is a climate change-focused mission that that will systematically measure the heat, in the form of infrared and far-infrared wavelengths, lost from Earth's polar regions for the first time. Extreme storms, flooding, and coastal erosion are examples of weather outcomes that are influenced by climate conditions in the Arctic and Antarctica. Once deployed to their separate orbits, the two PREFIRE satellites will criss-cross over the Arctic and Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation – the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp – that will make climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by global warming. PREFIRE consists of two 6U CubeSats with a baseline mission length of 10 months.

The missions will be Rocket Lab's 48th and 49th Electron launches overall and its sixth and seventh launches of 2024.

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Launched:
№ - Date/Time (UTC) - Rocket - Launch Site - Satellite(s)
       
2024
01 - January 31 (06:34) - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1B (NZ) - 43rd mission "Four Of A Kind": Skylark 1, Skylark 2, Skylark 3, Skylark 4 (NorthStar)
02 - February 18 (14:52) - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1B (NZ) - 44th mission "On Closer Inspection": ADRAS-J
03 - March 12 (15:03) - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1B (NZ) - 45th Mission "Owl Night Long": StriX-3
04 - March 21 (07:25) - Electron/Kick Stage - MARS LA-0C (LC-2) (US) - 46th Mission "Live and Let Fly": NROL-123: [USA 352],  MOLA,  Aerocube 16A , Aerocube 16B
05 - April 23 (22:32) - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1B (NZ) -  47th Mission "Beginning Of The Swarm": ACS-3, NeonSat-1

Suborbitals:
01 -

Scheduled:
Date/Time (UTC) - Rocket - Launch Site - Satellite(s)

2024
May - Electron/Kick Stage - MARS LA-0C (LC-2) (US) - government customer
May    1   22 - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - 48th Mission "Ready, Aim, PREFIRE": PREFIRE 1
May 15  NET June 12 - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - 49th Mission "PREFIRE And Ice": PREFIRE 2
June 10-July 9 - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Kinéis 1, Kinéis 2, Kinéis 3, Kinéis 4, Kinéis 5
NET    May   June - Electron/Kick Stage - MARS LA-0C (LC-2) (US) - Acadia 3
NET June - Electron/Photon LEO - LC-1A (NZ) - LOXSAT 1
NET June - Electron/Kick Stage - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - StriX-2
NET    Q2   June - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) / LC-2 (US) - Hawk (x6)
September - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Kinéis 6, Kinéis 7, Kinéis 8, Kinéis 9, Kinéis 10
November - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Kinéis 11, Kinéis 12, Kinéis 13, Kinéis 14, Kinéis 15
December - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Kinéis 16, Kinéis 17, Kinéis 18, Kinéis 19, Kinéis 20
Late - Neutron - MARS LA-0D/LP-0D (LC-3) (US) - first flight
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Hawk (x6)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) / LC-2 (US)  - Hawk (x6)
TBD - Electron/Photon - LC-1 (NZ) / LC-2 (US) - Varda Space
TBD - Electron/Photon - LC-1 (NZ) / LC-2 (US) - Varda Space
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Skylark 5, Skylark 6, Skylark 7, Skylark 8 (NorthStar)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Skylark 9, Skylark 10, Skylark 11, Skylark 12 (NorthStar)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - BlackSky Global Gen-3 (х2)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - BlackSky Global Gen-3 (х2)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - BlackSky Global Gen-3 (х2)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - BlackSky Global Gen-3 (х2)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - BlackSky Global Gen-3 (х2)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - StriX-4
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - StriX-5
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - StriX-6
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - MARS LA-0C (LC-2) (US) - government customer
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - MARS LA-0C (LC-2) (US) - government customer

Piggybacked:
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - McNair
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - WOODSAT
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - SMOG-2

Suborbitals:
Q3 - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE F2) - LC-2 (US) - TBD
Q4 - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE) - LC-2 (US) - MACH-TB2

2025
NET January - Electron/Photon Venus - LC-1 (NZ) - VLF (Venus Life Finder NZSA)
February - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-1 (NZ) - Kinéis 21, Kinéis 22, Kinéis 23, Kinéis 24, Kinéis 25
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-2 (US) - TacRS-4: Victus Haze

Suborbitals:
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE) - LC-2 (US) - MACH-TB3
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE) - LC-2 (US) - MACH-TB4
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE) - LC-2 (US) - MACH-TB5

2026
NET H1 - Electron/Kick Stage - LC-2 (US)  - STP-S30

Unclear:
Date/Time (UTC) - Rocket - Launch Site - Satellite(s)

TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - TBD - Dove / Flock-z (x20-25)
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage - TBD - Dove / Flock-z (x20-25)

Suborbitals:
TBD - Electron/Kick Stage (HASTE multiple launches) - LC-2 (US) - TBD

LC-1A, LC-1B (NZ) - launch site on the Mahia Peninsula on the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) of New Zealand
LC-2 (US) - launch site on Wallops at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia  U.S.
LC-3 (US) - launch site on Wallops at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia  U.S.

Statistics:
Orbital Launches: 46 (LC-1A - 27, LC-1B - 16, LC-2 - 3)
Suborbital Launches: 1 (LC-2 - 1)
Launched / Delivered to Orbit Satellites: 202/191 (LC-1A - 163/153, LC-1B - 30/29, LC-2 - 9/9)

Acronyms:
ACS-3      - Advanced Composite Solar Sail System
ADRAS-J  - Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan
GNSS-RO - Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation
MACH-TB - Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed
PREFIRE  - Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment

Changes on April 30th