Mission
Rocket Lab plans to launch Electron on the We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360) mission on 21 Oct 2026 · 00:00 UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, New Zealand. The launch window is 00:00 UTC and the target orbit is SSO. The countdown and the livestream link are on this page.
HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).
