The Moon God Awakens will be Rocket Lab’s 42nd launch overall and its ninth launch this year, as well as its seventh launch from Launch Complex 1B. Their Electron rocket will be launching a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) into a circular 575 km low-Earth orbit. QPS-SAR-5, also named “Tsukuyomi 1” is iQPS’ sixth SAR Earth observation satellite.

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00:00 - Intro
03:20 - Prelaunch Preview
07:05 - Q&A
14:10 - Rocket Lab Stream Starts
38:55 - Liftoff!
41:40 - Stage Separation
48:35 - SECO
51:00 - Q&A
1:34:15 - Payload Deploy
1:37:45 - Q&A

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