Second PREFIRE Satellite Now in Orbit

Rocket Lab Completes Second of Two Launches for the NASA Program

The second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) climate change-focused mission successfully launched late Tuesday (US eastern time), completing a turnaround of two launches within eleven days.

"Quickly deploying both satellites to orbit within eleven days of each other demonstrates our team’s s…