Rocket Lab is launching a rocket called Neutron from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA. The public listing does not name a cargo yet.
Rocket Lab is flying a Neutron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 (Launch Area 0 D), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA. Mission: NZSA Venus Mission. NZSA Venus Mission is a small direct Venus entry probe with a single 1 kg low-mass, low-cost autofluorescing nephelometer riding on a satellite bus based on the Photon Upper stage of the Electron rocket. The probe mission will spend approximately 5 minutes in the Venus cloud layers, 48-60 km above the surface, collecting in situ measurements to search for organic molecules in cloud particles and constrain particle composition. Planned orbit: Heliocentric N/A. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.
Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.
From here
Too far to see
You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 1,582 miles east. The broadcast is the view.
That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.
Public places
Viewing spots
Places run by a park or a visitor center near this site. A listing is not a promise you can see the rocket from there.
NASA Wallops Visitor Center
Public visitor center for Wallops Flight Facility. NASA posts the hours.
Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.
Put it on a calendar
So the slip still finds you
A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.
