<div class="grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:max-w-[750px] md:grid-cols-article md:max-w-screen-sm" data-article-body="true"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.</i></p><figure class="relative col-body mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt=" An image of a rocket going off the launch pad. " loading="lazy" width="960" height="640" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="fig-image-round" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/_5gUixRNEvl1MaP4zivrqQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/space_311/49967c8c1083b35faab7690dacbe8a06"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-[0.875rem]/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 pr-2.5"><div>A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches "The Nation God Navigates" mission for the Japanese company iQPS on Nov. 5, 2025. . | Credit: Rocket Lab</div></figcaption></figure><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese technology-demonstrating satellite tonight (Dec. 6), and you can watch the action live.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) <a href="https://www.space.com/electron-rocket.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Electron;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link "><u>Electron</u></a> rocket is scheduled to launch the "RAISE and Shine" mission from <a href="https://www.space.com/rocket-lab.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Rocket Lab;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link "><u>Rocket Lab</u></a>'s New Zealand site tonight at 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT and 4 p.m. local New Zealand time on Sunday, Dec. 7).</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">Rocket Lab will <a href="https://rocketlabcorp.com/live-stream/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:stream the launch live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link "><u>stream the launch live</u></a> beginning 30 minutes before liftoff. Space.com will carry the feed if, as expected, the company makes it available.</p><figure class="relative col-body mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt="A mission patch, showing an illustration of a rocket going off the launch pad" loading="lazy" width="960" height="584" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="fig-image-round" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/jx03LQb4R8ApzJ3nmC6h9Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU4NA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/space_311/f967ede219bbfc9a67fef5642fbc0e4c"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-[0.875rem]/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 pr-2.5"><div>The patch for Rocket Lab's "RAISE and Shine" mission for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. | Credit: Rocket Lab</div></figcaption></figure><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">"RAISE and Shine" is the first flight that Rocket Lab has contracted directly with <a href="https://www.space.com/22672-japan-aerospace-exploration-agency.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:JAXA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link "><u>JAXA</u></a> (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). It's part of a two-flight deal with the Japanese space agency; the second mission is a rideshare launch scheduled for early next year.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">The California-based company has a long history with Japan overall, however, launching more than 20 missions to date for companies based in the Land of the Rising Sun.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">Today's launch will send JAXA's Rapid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4, known as RAISE-4, to a circular orbit 336 miles (540 kilometers) above Earth.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">The satellite's full name tells us broadly what it will do up there. RAISE-4 "will demonstrate eight technologies developed by private companies, universities, and research institutions throughout Japan," Rocket Lab wrote in a <a href="https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/next-mission/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:mission description;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link "><u>mission description</u></a>.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">"RAISE and Shine" will continue a record-breaking year for Rocket Lab, which has launched 18 missions in 2025 so far, all of them successful. Fifteen of them have been orbital flights. The other three were suborbital launches with HASTE, a modified version of Electron designed to help customers <a href="https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/rocket-lab-launches-hypersonic-test-180000852.html" data-ylk="slk:test hypersonic technologies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;" class="link  yahoo-link"><u>test hypersonic technologies</u></a> in the final frontier.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">Rocket Lab's previous single-year launch record was 16, set in 2024.</p></div>

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff.

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