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- Rocket Lab will be using the newly completed Pad B at its New Zealand launch complex, which lies on the North Island's Mahia Peninsula.
Using the Explorer platform, Rocket Lab delivered a launch+ spacecraft solution to NASA, successfully deploying the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat on a highly efficient transfer orbit to the Moon.
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Feb 24, 2022 · With two launch pads and private range assets at Launch Complex 1, concurrent launch campaigns are now possible from the site. This enables resilient access to space by accommodating tailored customer requirements or late changes to a spacecraft while keeping Rocket Lab’s manifest on schedule.
- What Is Rocket Lab?
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- What Are The Satellites for?
- What Vehicle Will Rocket Lab use?
Rocket Lab is a space manufacturer and launch service provider that was founded in 2006 by New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck and has its current headquarters in Long Beach, California. It calls itself an “end-to-end” company and aims to furnish nearly every step of space travel, from launchservices to satellite components and spacecraft. The comp...
The Electron rocket will blast off with the satellites on January 23 from Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The rocket will blast from Launch Complex 2, which was developed for Electron missions serving government and commercial customers. This is Rocket Lab’s first mission to take off from Laun...
The mission, dubbed “Virginia is for Launch Lovers,” will send HawkEye 360’s satellites to monitor radio frequencies around the globe and pinpoint their precise location. The satellites can collect data as frequently as every hour anywhere in the world, accordingto HawkEye 360. HawkEye 360’s small satellites fly in a triangular formation in low-Ear...
The company is deploying the 59-foot-tall Electron rocket, the world’s only reusable orbital-class small rocket. The vehicle’s shell is made up of an ultra-light carbon-composite material (about four times lighter than the steel shell on SpaceX’s Falcon 9) and can hold up to 660 pounds. By capturing and reflying Electron’s first stage component, Ro...
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The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, will be Rocket Lab’s first launch for the NRO from the United States after previously launching four NRO missions from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Jun 20, 2024 · Three days after high winds scrubbed a launch attempt Friday, Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket with four satellites from New Zealand at 1212 GMT (8:12 a.m. EDT) Monday.
Feb 28, 2022 · Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live. The window for the mission, dubbed "The Owl's...
Dec 14, 2019 · WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Rocket Lab officially opened its new U.S. launch site for business today (Dec. 12) and the U.S. Air Force will be the first to fly from the new complex. Called Launch...
