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Launch of Victus Haze Puma
This mission launched yesterday (Friday 19th), but was not made public until today. Rocket Lab launched an Electron from Māhia in New Zealand at 1020 UTC on Friday, or 2220 local time (NZST). This was carrying Victus Haze Puma, a mission for the US Space Force acting as a test to see if Rocket Lab could prepare and launch a payload into orbit within 24 hours of an "orbital threat" being detected. The spacecraft will now perform a series of rendezvous manoeuvres with True Anomaly's Jackal-0004 to simulate an "uncooperative rendezvous" situation. This was the 90th flight of Electron. [Source: Rocket Lab]
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