Rocket Lab

Curveball

SUCCESS
✓ Mission success

On 11 JUN · 08:00 UTC 2026, Electron delivered Curveball to Low Earth Orbit.

Electron — Curveball
T-0 (flown)
11 JUN · 08:00 UTC
Window
5.3 hr
Rocket
Electron
Operator
Rocket Lab
Pad
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) · Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Payload
Curveball
Orbit
Low Earth OrbitLEO

Mission

Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD. Note: Despite reported as a strictly sub-orbital launch program, this launch was cataloged by the USSF to have left 2 rocket stages in a 200 km, 40° very low Earth orbit by the US Space Force. The payload was not cataloged and may have been deliberately de-orbited.