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June 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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June 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC

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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA · 37.8333, -75.4882

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Electron
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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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June 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM UTC
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June 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM UTC
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June 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM UTC

Mission description

Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD. Note: Despite reported as a strictly sub-orbital launch program, this launch was cataloged by the USSF to have left 2 rocket stages in a 200 km, 40° very low Earth orbit by the US Space Force. The payload was not cataloged and may have been deliberately de-orbited.

Vehicle

Electron

Height

18 m

Diameter

1.2 m

LEO capacity

300 kg

Successful launches

88

Launch complex

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

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.

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Launch success.

June 12, 2026 at 5:35 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Liftoff.

June 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Hold, awaiting propellant losding,

June 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Added launch per air space closure notices (see also https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2062237394133246409).

June 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin