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Robert Lea

Watch Rocket Lab launch 2 tiny NASA hurricane-watching probes early Thursday

The second set of NASA's TROPICS cubesats will launch on their hurricane-studying mission early Thursday (May 25), and you can watch the action live.

The two tiny satellites are scheduled to lift off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from the company's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's North Island, during a 70-minute window Thursday that opens at midnight EDT (0400 GMT).

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