HASTE | Curveball

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Rocket Lab (Commercial)
• Rocket: Electron

Mission

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.

• Type: Government/Top Secret
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

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