And space startupRocket Labis hoping it was just the first of many such happenings.
The company has conducted more than 30 launches of its Electron rocket from its complex in New Zealand.
The Electron blasted off just after 6 p.m. you might rewatch the whole mission below.
Most US space launches leave from Florida.
Prepared and lucky photographers across the region posted Electron’s flight through the atmosphere to social media.
If you caught a glimpse of launch, share your pics with us here.
We’d love to see them.#VirginiaIsForLaunchLovers@TrevorMahlmannpic.twitter.com/9BKr5i6YdG
Congratulations on the successful launch!
The company says its second launchpad in Virginia will allow it to support over 130 missions a year.
Electron is a smaller rocket than SpaceX’s Falcon 9, designed to lift smaller satellites to orbit.
