We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)

Name: We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)
Start: 2026-10-21
Location: Unknown Pad

Electron, Rocket Lab

Unknown Pad, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Launch time

No earlier than

NET Wed 21 Oct 2026

Day precision To be determined

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Launch record updated by LL2 Tue 13 Oct 2026, 01:33 CEST

Feed checked 13 Oct, 02:38 CEST

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Mission

We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360) on Electron. NET Wed 21 Oct 2026. Status: TBD. Launch site: Unknown Pad. Source: Launch Library 2.

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

Mission type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rocket file imagery

The light of an Electron launch rises above a water tower and an illuminated exhaust cloud at night. — File imagery: Virginia is for Launch Lovers, 24 January 2023. Electron lifting off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops.
Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson · Public domain (NASA) · Source

Mission patches

We're Not Hawking Around Patch

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Launch timeline

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Slip history

Changes recorded by Space Right Now

Tracking since Sat 10 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC. 4 recorded changes.

Mon 12 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTCRecorded change
Window close moved from Thu 31 Dec 2026, 00:00 UTC to Wed 21 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC
Mon 12 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTCRecorded change
Window opening moved from Thu 31 Dec 2026, 00:00 UTC to Wed 21 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC
Mon 12 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTCRecorded change
Date became more certain: from Year to Day
Mon 12 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTCRecorded change
NET moved from NET 2026 to NET Wed 21 Oct 2026

Source updates from Launch Library 2 (3)

Announcements supplied by LL2 may predate our tracking. They are separate from changes observed by Space Right Now.

Mon 12 Oct 2026, 23:33 UTCLL2 update
NET October 21.
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Thu 6 Aug 2026, 15:20 UTCLL2 update
NET Q3, from LC-1.
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Wed 20 Apr 2022, 08:40 UTCLL2 update
Adding launch
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Launch pad

Unknown Pad

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand (NZ)

Coordinates: -39.260881, 177.865826