It was glass half full for Rocket Lab as its Electron booster went into space on its maiden flight, but failed to reach orbit. Today at 4:20 pm NZST (04:20 GMT), the unmanned rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand and achieved the official space altitude of 100 km (52) mi three minutes later. However, it failed to reach orbital velocity and plummeted back to earth somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
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