Rocket Lab will launch a small NASA Earth-observation satellite early Saturday morning , and you can watch the action live.'s New Zealand site Saturday during an hour-long window that opens at 3:15 a.m. EDT . It will carry to orbit the first of two cubesats for NASA's, and Space.com will air the company's stream if, as expected, it is made available. Coverage will begin 30 minutes before the window opens.Rocket Lab will also launch the second PREFIRE satellite.
"Once deployed to their separate orbits, the two PREFIRE satellites will criss-cross over the Arctic and Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused byThe mission patch for"Ready, Aim, PREFIRE," the first of two launches that Rocket Lab will perform for NASA's PREFIRE mission.
Rocket Lab is working to make Electron's first stage reusable; the company has recovered boosters from the sea after multiple launches, and it'sfor the first time. But Saturday's liftoff appears to be a more traditional effort; the mission press kit, which you can findto keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: and joined the team in 2010.
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