Rocket Lab PREFIRE and Ice Launch

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket called “PREFIRE and Ice,” lifts off from Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 3:15 p.m. NZST Wednesday, June 5, 2024 (11:15 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4), on the second of two launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment). The PREFIRE mission, expected to last at least 10 months, consists of sending two CubeSats to asynchronous, 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-20240605-MH-RKL01-0001-Rocket_Lab_PREFIRE_and_Ice_Launch_1080p-M6988 NASA material is not copyrighted in the US. NASA does not endorse Hectic TV.