JUSTIN

Name: JUSTIN
Start: 2025-10-01T00:28:00.000Z
End: 2025-10-01T05:00:00.000Z
Location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Electron, Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Launch time

T-0

Wed 1 Oct, 02:28 CEST

00:28 UTC

Minute precision Launch successful

The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.

Window opens: Wed 1 Oct, 01:45 CEST
Window closes: Wed 1 Oct, 07:00 CEST

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Launch record updated by LL2 Thu 2 Oct 2025, 06:31 CEST

Feed checked 11 Oct, 03:32 CEST

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Mission

JUSTIN on Electron. Wed 1 Oct 2025, 00:28 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.

Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Suborbital

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

Launch timeline

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Slip history

Changes recorded by Space Right Now

No changes since we started tracking on Sat 10 Oct 2026, 11:17 UTC.

Source updates from Launch Library 2 (18)

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Thu 2 Oct 2025, 04:31 UTCLL2 update
Mission success.
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Wed 1 Oct 2025, 02:42 UTCLL2 update
Mission completed.
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Wed 1 Oct 2025, 00:44 UTCLL2 update
Liftoff.
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Wed 1 Oct 2025, 00:21 UTCLL2 update
New T-0.
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Wed 1 Oct 2025, 00:01 UTCLL2 update
On hold.
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Tue 30 Sept 2025, 23:50 UTCLL2 update
New T-0.
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Mon 29 Sept 2025, 11:01 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to September 30 per NOTAMs.
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Sat 27 Sept 2025, 02:26 UTCLL2 update
Updated launch window.
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Wed 24 Sept 2025, 16:47 UTCLL2 update
New launch window.
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Wed 17 Sept 2025, 15:13 UTCLL2 update
NET September 29 per marine navigation warnings.
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Thu 31 Jul 2025, 23:15 UTCLL2 update
Launch delayed with new date TBD per cancellation of NOTAMs.
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Wed 30 Jul 2025, 19:33 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to NET August 2 UTC.
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Mon 21 Jul 2025, 13:46 UTCLL2 update
Rescheduled for NET July 31 UTC.
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Mon 14 Jul 2025, 03:07 UTCLL2 update
Apparently scrubbed for the day without signs of launch operations; new date TBD.
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Sun 13 Jul 2025, 22:39 UTCLL2 update
Apparently delayed with vehicle still horizontal on pad.
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Sat 12 Jul 2025, 15:46 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to NET July 13.
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Fri 11 Jul 2025, 21:51 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to NET July 12.
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Fri 11 Jul 2025, 01:32 UTCLL2 update
Added launch, payload and customer details TBD.
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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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