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Watch live: Rocket Lab launching Electron rocket on The Mountain God Guards mission

Rocket Lab will launch an Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-11 synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite for iQPS (nicknamed “YAMATSUMI-I” for the Japanese god of mountains). Liftoff is scheduled for 11:31 a.m. EDT (1531 GMT, 3:31 a.m. local New Zealand time, June 12) from the company's Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.

Livestream scheduled to begin 30 minutes before launch.

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