Blastoff! Rocket Lab launches U.S. spy satellites from Virginia

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the NROL-123 mission from the company’s Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on March 21, 2024 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT). Full Story: “NROL-123 sent three research missions skyward, Rocket Lab representatives said during the company’s launch webcast on Thursday and that’s pretty much all we know about the payloads,“ according to . Credit: Rocket Lab