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Rocket Lab launches 2 tiny NASA hurricane-watching probes to orbit


Rocket Lab launches 2 tiny NASA hurricane-watching probes to orbit The second set of NASA's TROPICS cubesats launched on Thursday night (May 25), completing the agency's hurricane-studying miniconstellation. The two tiny satellites lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from the company's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's North Island on Thursday at 11:46 p.m. EDT (0346 GMT on May 26). The Electron deployed the cubesat pair as planned about 34 minutes after liftoff, Rocket Lab confirmed via Twitter.   More



(Source: Space.com - May 26)

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