On May 8th, 2023, Rocket Lab successfully completed the first of two launches to deploy NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission across two separate Electron launches. The first mission - Rocket Like A Hurricane - was Rocket Lab’s 36th Electron launch overall and lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. #rocket #rockets #spacelaunch #space #rocketlab #rocketry #spacerocket #nasa

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second pair of NASA TROPICS cubesats from New Zealand's North Island at 11:46 p.m. EDT on May 25, 2023 (0346 GMT on May 26). Full Story 👉 https://trib.al/l8HRuf3 Credit: Rocket Lab | Space.com

January 22, 2026: Rocket Lab has launched The "The Cosmos Will See You Now" mission, aboard its Electron/Curie rocket from its Launch Complex 1A in New Zealand, sending the first two satellites for Open Cosmos' secure LEO broadband constellation. This was Rocket Lab's 1st launch of the year, and 80th overall. | NASASpaceflight.com