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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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
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]
Rocket Lab: Rocket Lab: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight of Neutron, lifting off from Launch Complex 3 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. [209] 2025 (TBD) [211] Nova: Cape Canaveral LC-14: Stoke Space: Stoke Space: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight of Nova. 2025 (TBD) [212] Prime: SaxaVord: Orbex: SSTL experimental payload [213 ...
The successful mission set a new record for launch cadence for the New Zealand rocket launcher -- 12 launches in just over 10 months, versus 10 launches in 12 months in 2023.
First Rocket Lab Electron launch, first launch from outside the United States (New Zealand), and first launch procured under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program. Flew on Rocket Lab's "Birds of a Feather" mission. L-162 [147] (RASR-3) USA-334 13 July 2022 06:30 Mahia, LC-1A: Electron: Entered service, presumed active RASR-3 ...