Rocket Lab PREFIRE-1 Launch

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 7:41 p.m. NZST (3:41 a.m. EDT) Saturday, May 25, 2024, on the first of two launches which Rocket Lab named “Ready, Aim, PREFIRE,” for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission, expected to last at least 10 months, consists of sending two CubeSats to synchronous, near-polar orbits, to help close a gap in our understanding of how much of Earth’s heat is lost to space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Source: NASA Image and Video Library — https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20240525-MH-RKL01-0001-Rocket_Lab_PREFIRE_1_Launch_1080p-M6988 NASA material is not copyrighted in the US. NASA does not endorse Hectic TV.