Live and Let Fly
This spectacular plume is from a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, which blasted off on March 21 from Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia (gah, there’s gotta be an easier way to describe that place). Dubbed “Live And Let Fly,” the NROL-123 mission marked Rocket Lab’s debut launch for the NRO from the United States, following four successful launches for the agency from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
