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Nov 6, 2025 8:00 AM

Rocket Lab Advances iQPS Constellation With New Radar-Sat Delivery

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) traded higher in Thursday’s premarket after completing its 74th Electron mission a day earlier, successfully deploying a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS).

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The mission, called “The Nation God Navigates,” lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on November 5 at 19:51 UTC, delivering the QPS-SAR-14 satellite (YACHIHOKO-I) into a 575 km circular ...