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Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. [14] [15] Servicing the commercial small satellite launch market, [16] it is the third most launched small-lift launch vehicle in history.
Launch of Electron in start of the "Birds of a Feather" mission. Electron is a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle built and operated by Rocket Lab. The rocket has been launched to orbit 56 times with 52 successes and four failures. A suborbital version of the rocket, HASTE, has been successfully launched three times.
Rutherford is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab [8] and manufactured in Long Beach, California. [9] The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron. It uses LOX (liquid oxygen) and RP-1 (refined kerosene) as its propellants and is the first flight-ready engine to use the electric-pump-fed cycle.
Rocket Lab on Friday said it had launched its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand, the SpaceX rival's first flight since a mission failure in September. The previous mission ...
It will be Rocket Lab’s fourth mission from Launch Complex 2, a dedicated pad for the Electron rocket located at Virginia Spaceport Authority's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within the NASA ...
Rocket Lab launched its tenth Electron spacecraft on Friday morning, successfully delivering payloads for clients Spaceflight and Alba Orbital. The launch company also had an important secondary ...
Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket. The Rutherford engine uses pumps driven by battery-powered electric motors rather than a gas generator, expander, or preburner. [107] The engine is fabricated largely by 3D printing, using electron beam melting, [108] whereby layers of metal powder are melted in a high vacuum by an electron beam. [109]
Rocket Lab secures multi-launch contract with HawkEye 360 with the confirms first launch planned from Wallops Flight Facility What will be on board Rocket Lab's first Electron launch from Wallops ...