Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron rocket last night (US time) and put 7 small satellites into low earth orbit (see also earlier posting): Rocket Lab reaches orbit again, deploys more satellites | Rocket Lab –

The satellites included:

• 2 Lemur-2 satellites join a constellation of several dozen Spire Global satellites already in orbit. The constellation provides maritime tracking services and atmospheric weather measurements using the GPS radio-occultation technique.
• GeoOptics Inc. satellite, which also makes atmospheric weather measurements. The spacecraft was built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
• 2 Proxima “Internet of Things” (IOT) communications satellites from Fleet Space Technologies in Australia.
• IRVINE01 educational CubeSat built by high school students in the Irvine CubeSat STEM Program (ICSP) in Irvine, California. (Irvine CubeSat (@irvinecubesat) | Twitter)
• NABEO drag sail technology demonstrator from High Performance Space Structure Systems GmBH.

A clip from the webcast when the satellites were being deployed:

Here is the complete Rocket Lab webcast of the launch through spacecraft deployment:

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