Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 9:01 PM ET (0101 GMT)
Rocket Lab launched seven smallsats Monday night on a mission that also advanced efforts to reuse the Electron rocket. The Electron lifted off at 9:27 pm EDT (0127 GMT) from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. The rocket successfully deployed four NASA Starling cubesats to test "swarm" technologies, two Spire cubesats for collecting weather data and Telesat's LEO 3 smallsat to test technologies for its Lightspeed constellation. Rocket Lab successfully recovered the Electron booster after splashdown as it continues efforts to eventually reuse the booster.

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