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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.
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.
Rocket Lab has set its next big Electron rocket launch from the Wallops Flight Facility, but be warned: You'll have to either get up very early or stay up very late to watch it. ... The big launch ...
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 ...
The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 a.m. on March 21, 2024, from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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
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 ...
An Electron first-stage booster is a reusable rocket stage used on the Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. [1] It is made of a carbon composite developed and manufactured by Rocket Lab. In 2019, Rocket Lab announced plans to recover and reuse the first stage of Electron despite previously dismissing the idea.