Curveball
Electron, Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Launch time
T-0
Thu 11 Jun, around 10:00 CEST
around 08:00 UTC
The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.
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Launch record updated by LL2
Feed checkedMission
Curveball on Electron. Thu 11 Jun 2026, around 08:00 UTC. Reported outcome: Success. Launch site: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C). Source: Launch Library 2.
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.
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
Rocket file imagery
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) · SourceLaunch timeline
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Slip history
Changes recorded by Space Right Now
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Source updates from Launch Library 2 (4)
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- LL2 update
Launch success.
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Liftoff.
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Hold, awaiting propellant losding,
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Added launch per air space closure notices (see also https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2062237394133246409).
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Launch pad
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA (US)
Coordinates: 37.833262, -75.488235
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