Prometheus Run (VAN)

Name: Prometheus Run (VAN)
Start: 2025-11-18T13:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-11-18T18:00:00.000Z
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

Tue 18 Nov, 14:00 CET

13:00 UTC

Minute precision Launch successful

The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.

Window opens: Tue 18 Nov, 13:45 CET
Window closes: Tue 18 Nov, 19:00 CET

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Launch record updated by LL2 Tue 18 Nov 2025, 19:43 CET

Feed checked 11 Oct, 03:32 CEST

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Mission

Prometheus Run (VAN) on Electron. Tue 18 Nov 2025, 13:00 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. This mission was lead by MDA and deployed a government-provided primary payload developed by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), and multiple secondary payloads by federal and industry partners, which tested key technologies for missile defense applications. The mission was contracted to Rocket Lab through the DIU’s Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) program, an initiative supporting test and evaluation of new and emerging hypersonic technologies through low cost, responsive and long endurance flight testing.

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

Mission patches

F75-PrometheusRun-Patch

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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 (9)

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Tue 18 Nov 2025, 18:15 UTCLL2 update
Launch successful.
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Tue 18 Nov 2025, 14:49 UTCLL2 update
Updated liftoff time.
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Tue 18 Nov 2025, 13:10 UTCLL2 update
Liftoff
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Tue 18 Nov 2025, 11:52 UTCLL2 update
Unofficial Webcast by pat o. has started
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Mon 17 Nov 2025, 14:51 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to November 18.
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Mon 17 Nov 2025, 14:36 UTCLL2 update
No signs of fueling being started.
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Mon 17 Nov 2025, 12:28 UTCLL2 update
New T-0.
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Sat 15 Nov 2025, 19:18 UTCLL2 update
Delayed to NET November 17.
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Wed 5 Nov 2025, 18:17 UTCLL2 update
Added launch per air space closure notices.
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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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