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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.
[35] [40] Later, Rocket Lab abandoned the plan to catch the stage with a helicopter, and will use ocean landing instead. One recovered Rutherford engine passed five full-duration hot fire tests and is declared ready to fly again. [41] Rocket Lab's 40th Electron mission successfully reused a refurbished Rutherford engine from a previous flight ...
Electron is a two-stage launch vehicle that uses Rocket Lab's Rutherford liquid engines on both stages. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The vehicle is capable of delivering payloads of 150 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit . [ 105 ]
New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest for signs of life outside earth, as the startup hit a new milestone with a Nasdaq listing on ...
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck sits alongside a Rutherford rocket engine in Auckland, New Zealand, on Oct. 20, 2015. ... Rocket Lab’s Electron has been a major player with nearly 200 satellites ...
Rutherford New Zealand USA: Rocket Lab: Electron: Active 1st RP-1 / LOX: Electric pump: 311: 24,900 25,000 (SL) 55 35 [49] 72.8 (SL) Rutherford Vacuum New Zealand USA ...
As of December 2020, the only rocket engines to use electric propellant pump systems are the Rutherford engine, [2] ten of which power the Electron rocket, [2] and the Delphin engine, five of which power the first stage of Astra Space's Rocket 3. [3] On 21 January 2018, Electron was the first electric pump-fed rocket to reach orbit. [4]
Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) stock is falling in Monday's trading. The company's share price was down 11% as of 2:30 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index was up 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite ...