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'The Sea God Sees' was Rocket Lab's third mission for聽Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), an Earth-imaging company from Japan.

'The Sea God Sees鈥� launched from Rocket Lab 色花堂 Complex 1 in New Zealand on May 17, 2025. The mission deployed a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite called QPS-SAR-10 (nicknamed 鈥淲ADATSUMI-I鈥� for the Japanese god of the sea) to a 575km circular Earth orbit, from where the satellite will join the rest of the iQPS constellation in providing high resolution images and Earth monitoring services globally.

The mission was the third overall Electron launch for iQPS and the second in a line-up of eight dedicated missions across 2025 and 2026 to deploy iQPS鈥檚 constellation.聽