Success
That's Not A Knife (DART AE)
Government/Top Secret
Rocket Lab(RL)CommercialElectron
Suborbit
Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.
Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Mission details
RL Mission
#82
Pad Launch
#11
Location Launch
#85
Weather GO
90%
Launch Window
NET
Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM
Precision
Minute
Schedule Changes
1 update
Lift Off
9:00 PM
Window Open
12:45 AM
Window Close
Electron Specs
Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.
Length
18 m
Diameter
1.2 m
Launch Mass
13 t
Thrust
162 kN
LEO Capacity
300 kg
SSO Capacity
225 kg
Launch Cost
$6M
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2017
Fastest Turnaround
21h 55m
Total Launches
88
Successful
84
Failed
4
Consecutive Success
47
Maiden flight: May 25, 2017
Social Flight Log
- Feb 28, 2026, 12:18 AM
Mission success.
Source - Feb 28, 2026, 12:04 AM
Payload separation.
Source - Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM
Liftoff.
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 11:38 PM
New T-0.
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 11:28 PM
Hold at T-2:56.
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 10:52 PM
New T-0.
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 9:48 PM
Hold at T-2:55.
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 9:24 PM
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
Source - Feb 27, 2026, 6:55 PM
New T-0 due to upper level winds.
Source - Feb 26, 2026, 7:57 PM
GO for launch on February 27.
Source - Feb 26, 2026, 3:45 PM
NET February 27, to be confirmed.
Source - Feb 25, 2026, 7:57 PM
Scrubbed for the day.
Source - Feb 24, 2026, 5:19 PM
Tweaked launch window.
Source - Feb 23, 2026, 8:42 PM
Delayed to NET February 25.
Source - Feb 19, 2026, 5:50 PM
Delayed to NET February 24 per marine navigation notices.
Source - Feb 18, 2026, 3:03 PM
Tweaked launch window.
Source - Feb 12, 2026, 9:45 PM
GO for launch (launch window per https://x.com/eshorespaceflt/status/2021981194892484681).
Source - Nov 10, 2023, 5:59 PM
Adding flight NET Q1 2025
Source
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)
Total Launches
12
Orbital Attempts
4
Fastest Turnaround
8d
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Founded
2006
Administrator
CEO: Peter Beck
Total Launches
88
Successful
84
Failed
4
Pending
42
Consecutive Success
47
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.
Timezone
America/New_York
Local Launch Time
Feb 27, 2026, 7:00 PM
Total Launches
86
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
37.9333, -75.4678