"Look Ma, No Hands"

Electron's 8th flight carried a data recorder in its first stage to capture reentry conditions, an early step toward Rocket Lab's push to recover and reuse Electron boosters. The Spaceflight-arranged rideshare also carried BRO-1, the first satellite in UNSEENLABS' maritime surveillance constellation, and BlackSky's 4th Earth-imaging satellite. Two Air Force Space Command technology-demonstration cubesats, Pearl White 1 and 2, rounded out the manifest.