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Rocket Lab will launch a mystery mission this evening (March 5), and you can watch the action live.
We don’t know much about “Insight at Speed is a Friend Indeed.” Rocket Lab announced the planned launch just a few hours before liftoff and provided few details, saying that it’s “for a confidential commercial customer.”
Some observers are speculating this customer may be the Virginia company BlackSky, which operates a constellation of sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellites.
Rocket Lab has flown many missions for BlackSky to date and recently has been helping the company build out its new “Gen-3” constellation in low Earth orbit.
Today’s launch will be the 76th to date for the 59-foot-tall (18-meter-tall) Electron, which gives small satellites dedicated rides to orbit.
The rocket flew a company-record 18 times last year. Rocket Lab also launched HASTE, a suborbital version of Electron designed to help customers test hypersonic technologies, three times in 2025. All 21 of these missions were successful.
