Rocket Lab successfully launches fifth Electron rocket this year

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
today from its LC-1 launch site in New Zealand as planned
The rocket took off at 9:22 PM ET (6:22 PM PT), during its second launch opportunity of the day after the first window was pushed due to
high-altitude winds.This is the ninth Electron launch for the company thus far, and the eighth mission for a commercial customer (the first
was a test mission in 2017) since it began ferrying payloads for paying clients in 2018
client that had to delay their own launch
kick-stage separation, the Astro Digital satellite now awaits its final deployment into its target orbit, which should happen in the next
few hours