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Rocket Lab PREFIRE and Ice Ready for Launch
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Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket is vertical on the pad at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, loaded with the second of two identical 6U CubeSats for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission to help close a gap in our understanding of how much of Earth’s heat is lost to space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Liftoff of the second CubeSat launch, which Rocket Lab named “PREFIRE and Ice” was targeted for Saturday, June 1, 2024, but was scrubbed for the day.
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Credit lineRocket Lab PREFIRE and Ice Ready for Launch. NASA/KSC, 2024-05-30. Public domain. ID: KSC-20240530-PH-RKL01_0002.
