HASTE
SuccessCurveball · Rocket Lab
Launch time (NET)
Thursday, Jun 11, 2026, 08:00 UTC
Launch window
Thursday, Jun 11, 2026, 04:00 UTC – Thursday, Jun 11, 2026, 09:15 UTC
Provider
Rocket Lab
Rocket
Launch pad
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA · Open map
Status
Success
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Mission
Curveball
Type
Government/Top Secret
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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.
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