High Five

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-18 01:31 | |

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| | Scheduled for (NZDT) | 2025-03-18 14:31 | | Launch site | Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand | | Booster recovery | No | | Launch vehicle | Electron + Curie | | Customer | Kinéis | | Payload | Kinéis Mission V | | Target orbit | LEO |

Livestreams

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| | Rocket Lab (official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31hJeW1ec | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CC5_hmqH44 | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJa0ak2i6fE |

Stats

• 4th launch for Rocket Lab this year.
• 62nd overall launch for Rocket Lab.

Payload info:

Rocket Lab mission page

NextSpaceflight:

Kinéis Mission V

Fifth and final batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 28 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.

Previous mission: The Lightning God Reigns

Next mission: Finding Hot Wildfires Near You

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