Rocket Lab announced that it will launch a rideshare mission for Australia , taking multiple satellites into orbit from its New Zealand launch pad in June 2019 . The number of satellites involved has not been announced , but will include two Prometheus craft for the Australian Special Operations Command , a Global-4 satellite for BlackSky and the Melbourne Space Programme ’s ACRUX-1 . The mission will be Rocket Lab The mission has been named “Make it Rain”, for the amount of rainfall in Seattle and New Zealand. ’s seventh using its Electron satellite . At the end of 2018 , Spaceflight sent a payload of 64 satellites into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 .
Rocket Lab announced that it will launch a rideshare mission for Australia , taking multiple satellites into orbit from its New Zealand launch pad in June 2019 . The number of satellites involved has not been announced , but will include two Prometheus craft for the Australian Special Operations Command , a Global-4 satellite for BlackSky and the Melbourne Space Programme ’s ACRUX-1 . The mission will be Rocket Lab ’s seventh using its Electron satellite . At the end of 2018 , Spaceflight sent a payload of 64 satellites into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 .