A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
It’s business time for Rocket Lab, with the first fully commercial flight to be launched next month.
The American launch provider has confirmed that an Electron satellite launch vehicle will be shipped to the Mahia launch site in coming weeks.
On Twitter, Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said
the launch would be called “It’s Business Time”.
The flight’s name was put to a vote on social media, with “It’s Business Time” coming out as a clear fan favourite, and a continuation of the company’s previous flight names, “It’s a Test” (2017) and “Still Testing” (January this year).
Two Lemur-2 cubesats for launch customer Spire Global will be on board the launch, with the full manifest to be confirmed in coming weeks. The Spire payloads will be used to monitor weather and shipping movements.
