Rocket Lab’s HASTE launch vehicle launched the “That's Not A Knife” mission, a hypersonic test mission for the Defense Innovation Unit named DART AE, from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, Virginia, on 28 February 2026, at 00:00 UTC (19:00 EST). This was the seventh launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) launch vehicle.
