Rocket Lab will this month conduct its first fully commercial launch from a site in northern Hawke's Bay.
The company today confirmed it would open a 14-day launch window from April 20, with a daily four-hour launch window for the mission - named 'It's Business Time'.
This will include manifested payloads for launch customers Spire Global and GeoOptics Inc., built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
Licensed to launch every 72 hours, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in Wairoa is the world's only private orbital launch facility.
'It's Business Time' marks the fastest transition a private launch provider has made from test program to fully commercial flights.
This comes just three months after Rocket Lab's second test launch on January 21, called "Still Testing", which successfully deployed an Earth-imaging satellite for Planet and circularised the orbit of two weather and AIS ship tracking satellites for Spire Global using Rocket Lab's in-house designed and built kick stage.
"It's Business Time represents the shift to responsive space. We always set out to create a vehicle and launch site that could offer the world's most frequent launch capability and we're achieving that in record time," Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said.
"Rocket Lab is the only small launch provider that has reached orbit and delivered on promises to open access to space for small satellites.