Rocket Lab
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Official account for Rocket Lab, the end-to-end space company. We build rockets and spacecraft that open access to space to improve life on Earth.
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Joined November 2009
After launch comes spacecraft commissioning 🛰️🛰️ Our operators have spent recent days stabilizing spacecraft attitudes, deploying solar arrays, checking guidance and navigation systems, and powering up all flight computers and antennas on Blue and Gold as they begin their
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Commissioning of @NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, currently operated by @UCBerkeley and @RocketLab, is proceeding smoothly. ESCAPADE snapped this selfie in visible and infrared light. 👇 https://t.co/hn7cSLcrEd
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The cameras are up and running on Blue and Gold! 📸 The visible-light image (left) suggests we should have the sensitivity to image Martian aurora from orbit. The infrared camera (right) will be used at Mars to better understand how materials on the surface heat up and cool down
“First light” for NASA’s ESCAPADE mission! 🚀 📸 These images, taken on Nov. 21, 2025, are ESCAPADE’s “first light,” or first images taken from space. Just about a week after launch, one of the two Mars-bound spacecraft took these images as part of the commissioning process,
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RAISE And Shine! Our next Electron launch will be a dedicated mission for @JAXA_en from Launch Complex 1 to a 540km LEO. The launch will deploy JAXA'S RAISE-4 mission that includes a single satellite with 8x tech demonstrations by companies, universities, and research
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Blue and Gold, the satellites we built for @NASA and @ucbssl, are now more than a million kilometers from Earth 🛰️🛰️ Follow their journey to Mars on @NASA Eyes. https://t.co/TZGkkiorCC
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From bathroom to kitchen, this fast-drying non-slip rug protects floors from water while giving your feet soft cloud-like comfort with every step.
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The challenge? Build twin satellites on a drastically tight timeline for a complex Mars mission, and do it for a tiny fraction of the typical cost of interplanetary missions. Our team: You got it 🫡
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Today's 'Follow My Speed' mission marks 18 launches with 100% mission success for 2025 - more than any other year in Electron's history - making our rocket the most frequently flown orbital small launch vehicle in the world. Here's how we do it: 🚀 High cadence launch sites 🏭
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MISSION SUCCESS! Payload deployment is confirmed for the ‘Follow My Speed’ mission. ✅ 2nd launch in 48 hours ✅ 18th launch this year ✅ 76th launch in total ✅ 100% mission success in 2025
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SECO confirmed and nominal transfer orbit achieved. Up next: payload deployment.
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Can your birthday candles do this? Lotus Candles® open like flowers and light up, rotate, and play the Happy Birthday tune! Birthday party guests will be amazed.
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LIFT-OFF for Electron's 76th launch. We are on our way to space for the 2nd time in 48 hours.
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We’re live with the launch broadcast of Electron’s 76th mission ‘Follow My Speed’. 🚀⚡️
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T-60 minutes to liftoff for our next Electron launch. ✅ LOX load is underway ✅ Weather is GO ✅ Payload is healthy ✅ Launch vehicle is ready Join us as we follow Electron’s speed all the way to orbit. Broadcast begins approx. T-20 mins. https://t.co/WyLJLtwsSb
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Preparations are proceeding well for our upcoming launch in approx. T-2 hours. 'Follow My Speed' is scheduled to launch: 🚀1:15 am NZDT 🚀12:15 UTC 🚀07:15 am ET 🚀04:15 am PT ℹ️: https://t.co/xxFe6hkCP7
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It's launch day (again)! We're back-to-back with our next launch and 76th Electron mission, this time from LC-1 in just ~4 hours' time. 'Follow My Speed' is scheduled to launch NET: 🚀 1:15 am NZDT 🚀 12:15 UTC 🚀 07:15 am ET 🚀 04:15 am PT
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Where in the solar system are Blue and Gold? @Nasa has eyes on them! 🛰️🛰️👀 Follow Blue and Gold’s journey to Mars for the ESCAPADE mission live using NASA's Eyes on the Solar System interactive real time 3D data visualization. https://t.co/TZGkkinTN4
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Our latest launch by the numbers: 🥇17th launch in 2025 - a new annual launch record 🚀Our 3rd launch from LC-2 in three months 6️⃣Our 6th HASTE launch overall ℹ️Mission info: https://t.co/38Owk5mTyR
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View from the pad of our latest launch from LC-2. With HASTE, we're proud to be unblocking the hypersonic test bottleneck with regular commercial launches, lowering the cost and increasing the tempo of hypersonic test flights for the U.S. and its allies.
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Mars used to have water and a thick atmosphere, a bit like Earth. So what happened? Over billions of years solar wind has buffeted the Red Planet, stripping away the Martian atmosphere and causing water to evaporate. We have two spacecraft on the way to Mars for @NASA and
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MISSION SUCCESS! We've completed another HASTE launch from Launch Complex 2 today, this time for @DIU_x and Missile Defense Agency to test advanced technologies for missile defense. HASTE is an important platform for accelerating hypersonic technology readiness for the nation
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This time last week Blue and Gold were on the ground awaiting their ride to space for the ESCAPADE Mars mission. Today, they’re just over 2 lightseconds away from Earth, twice the distance to the Moon. 🛰️🛰️ Since launch, we’ve been stepping through commissioning of all systems,
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