Rocket Lab successfully launched South Korea’s disaster-monitoring satellite, NEONSAT-1A, on Thursday, January 29, from its New Zealand site.

The 59-foot Electron rocket lifted off at 8:21 p.m. EST (2:21 p.m. local time, Jan. 30), following a previous aborted attempt on December 15.

NEONSAT-1A, part of the “Bridging the Swarm” mission for KAIST’s Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC), is an advanced Earth-observation satellite with a high-resolution optical camera designed for near-real-time natural disaster monitoring over the Korean peninsula, Space.com has reported.

This marks the second satellite in the NEONSAT program to reach orbit, following NEONSAT-1’s launch in April 2024.