What Happened: On Saturday, Rocket Lab completed its 61st mission, "The Lightning God Reigns," from Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand. The mission deployed the QPS-SAR-9 satellite into a 575 ...

Mission number 62 was set to go just three days later – on Tuesday. Saturday’s mission, titled The Lightning God Reigns, lifted off at 1pm NZT and was the company’s second for its Japanese ...

Today's mission, which Rocket Lab calls "The Lightning God Reigns," successfully sent the QPS-SAR-9 satellite to a circular orbit 357 miles (575 kilometers) above Earth, deploying the spacecraft ...