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The commercial mission is set to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on October 19, 2024, for a confidential customer. This marks the company’s fastest turnaround, achieving the launch in ...
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]
First launch of Starlink Group 8 Satellites from Cape Canaveral. 5 June 03:15 [207] [189] Electron "PREFIRE & Ice" Mahia LC-1B: Rocket Lab ⚀ PREFIRE 2: NASA: Low Earth: Meteorology: In orbit: Operational Second of two launches for NASA's PREFIRE mission. 5 June 14:52:15 [208] [209] Atlas V N22 AV-085 [210] Cape Canaveral SLC-41: ULA: Boe-CFT ...
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
Still, this mission still promises to be "Rocket Lab's fastest turnaround [from contract signing to rocket launching] to date," and will mark an unprecedented 12 launches in a single year for the ...
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) stock jumped 3.5% through 9:45 a.m. ET Monday after announcing its latest first: For the first time ever, the company launched two rockets, from two separate launch pads ...
In 2023, Rocket Lab launched 10 times, but in 2024 the New Zealand-U.S. rocket company turned that dial to 16, making for some really easy math: Rocket Lab grew its launch cadence 60%, and thus ...
[53] [54] The rocket also lofted thirty payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit, including a titanium mass simulator in the shape of the garden gnome "Gnome Chompski" from the video game Half-Life 2. [55] [56] In August 2020, Rocket Lab announced increased payload of Electron to 225–300 kg (496–661 lb).