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In June 2020, with a new Electron launch vehicle built every 18 days, Rocket Lab was planning to deliver monthly launches for the remainder of 2020 and into 2021, including the company's first launch from Wallops LC-2 in 2023 and a mission to the Moon for NASA aboard Electron and Rocket Lab's spacecraft bus platform Photon in 2022. [2]
Aerial photo of Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, 2022. The Māhia Peninsula site at Onenui Station was mentioned in August 2015 as a possible second launch facility. [8] It had first been visited by company officials in April 2015 as part of their initial scouting for launch sites, [9] and were preparing to submit a resource consent application. [8]
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.
A photo of Rocket Lab's Electron space launch vehicle taking off. Image source: Rocket Lab USA. In August, it test-fired its Archimedes engine -- the type that the Neutron rocket will use -- for ...
The rocket, carrying a satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, a Japan-based Earth imaging company, blasted off from a launch pad on the country's North Island about 5:05 p.m ...
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 ...
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] The projected cost is less than US$5 million per launch. [106] Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket
Image source: Getty Images. What MSR means for Rocket Lab investors. Promises, of course, are easy, while space is famously hard. Still, if Rocket Lab is able to deliver what it's promising, the ...