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Rocket Lab has launched a quartet satellite for the Hawkeye 360 company based in Virginia.
An electron rocket that was canceled today at 1:28 p.m. Edt (1728 GMT; 5:28 a.m. Local New Zealand Time on June 27th) by Rocket Lab’s Pad-A in the start complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The rocket promoted Hawkeye 360S “Get the Hawk Outta Here” mission.
Electron’s payload cladding were three microsatellites of radio frequency geolocation and a fourth experimental satellite called “Kestrel-0A”. The group was released into a polar low Earth orbit (Leo) at a height of 520 kilometers (520 kilometers).
On June 26, 2025, Electron climbed into the New Zealand sky at the “Get the Hawk Outta HERE” mission. | Credit: rocket laboratory
Hawkeye 360 specializes in the provision of geospatial analyzes of radio frequencies. The Constellation Trio on board the HAWK Outta is designed in such a way that it triangles the origin of radio frequencies worldwide and is part of the company’s “Cluster 12”. According to Rocket Labs, the satellites will fill a “critical cover” and Hawkeye 360 grant the ability to “extract RF intelligence in regions of strategic interest”.
According to Rocket Lab, Kestrel-0A is designed so that they “evaluate aspiring skills and future technology improvements”.
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Get the Hawk Outta. In total, Rocket Lab will ultimately deliver 15 satellites for Hawkeye 360 to Leo. The first mission called the “Virginia is for Launch Lovers” served as the debut mission by Electron and was launched in January 2023 from the Rocket Lab Start complex on Wallops Island, Virginia.
This mission marks the 67th overall start of Electron and ninth start of 2025 for Rocket Lab – and the company shows no signs of a slow cadence.
Rocket Lab still has at least half a dozen starts for this year, including the debut of its larger, more powerful neutron rocket, which is partly reusable. Rocket Lab also flies a suborbital electron variant called hurry, which serves as a test bed for hyperschall technologies.
