Rocket Lab plans to launch a hush-hush mission early Tuesday morning (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live. The mission, for a "confidential commercial customer," is set to lift off atop an Electron vehicle from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on ...

SpaceNews mused today that the "confidential commercial customer," for which Rocket Lab flew, might be satellite internet start-up E-Space, which requested a "payload permit" from the New Zealand government in September (Rocket Lab launches most of its Electrons out of New Zealand).

It’s possible Rocket Lab’s mystery customer is former client E-Space, a communications company building satellite constellations designed to survive low-Earth orbit. The partners in 2022 deployed 34 satellites during a mission that also featured Rocket Lab’s initial attempt at catching Electron’s first stage using a helicopter.

That is until Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) joined the party. Nipping at SpaceX's heels, Rocket Lab has built a successful niche in the space economy and is now the second private space flight company to consistently and reliably launch payloads into orbit.