It was the 28th liftoff overall for Rocket Lab's 58-foot-tall (19 meters) Electron booster.
A Rocket Lab Electron booster carrying the NROL-162 satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office lifts off from New Zealand on July 13, 2022.
NROL-162"will strengthen the NRO's ability to provide a wide range of timely intelligence information to national decision makers and intelligence analysts to protect the United States' vital interests and support humanitarian efforts worldwide," Rocket Lab wrote in a description of Wednesday's mission, which you can findNROL-162 is a joint effort of the NRO and the Australian Department of Defence .
The NROL-162 flight, which Rocket Lab called"Wise One Looks Ahead," was just the latest in a string of national-security missions that the company has launched for the U.S. government. In January 2020, for example, an Electron launched the NRO's classified NROL-151 satellite. And in June of that year, Rocket Lab lofted three more hush-hush payloads for the spy agency.
"Wise One Looks Ahead" was the 28th launch overall for Electron, a 58-foot-tall rocket designed to give small satellites dedicated rides to Earth orbit. Electron has two main stages plus the small kick stage, which delivers customer payloads to their precise orbital destinations.
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