Electron • NROL-123

February 21, 2024 Will Robinson-Smith

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched its first mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Launch Complex 2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The NROL-123 mission, also known as ‘Live and Let Fly,’ was booked as part of the NRO’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract. It launched a classified payload to orbit. Delayed from March 20.