Rocket Lab announced that it will launch a rideshare mission for Spaceflight, taking multiple satellites into orbit from its New Zealand launch site in June 2019. The company's last launch was in early May 2019. The number of satellites involved has not been announced, but will include two Prometheus craft for the US Special Operations Command, a Global-4 satellite for BlackSky and the Melbourne Space Programme’s ACRUX-1. “Launching rockets is an expensive business, so we are looking to partners who can help us lower our costs,” said Rocket Lab's CEO Peter Beck. ’s seventh using its Electron rocket. At the end of 2018, Spaceflight sent a payload of 64 satellites into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket.
Rocket Lab announced that it will launch a rideshare mission for Spaceflight, taking multiple satellites into orbit from its New Zealand launch site in June 2019. The number of satellites involved has not been announced, but will include two Prometheus craft for the US Special Operations Command, a Global-4 satellite for BlackSky and the Melbourne Space Programme’s ACRUX-1. “Launching rockets is an expensive business, so we are looking to partners who can help us lower our costs,” said Rocket Lab's CEO Peter Beck. ’s seventh using its Electron rocket. At the end of 2018, Spaceflight sent a payload of 64 satellites into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket.