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The mission, called Space Test Program-30 (STP-S30), is a launch scheduled to take place within 24 months from contract award [171] to demonstrate Rocket Lab's responsive space program. NLT fall 2025 [172] LC-1 or LC-2: Pioneer derived satellite LEO: U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command: Mission for SSC.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (LC-1B) VADR award [59] 2023.05.26 Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS-3) Electron: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (LC-1B) VADR award [59] 2023.10.13 Psyche: Falcon Heavy: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A: $117 [60] 2024: 2024.02.08
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 has already pushed back its timeline for launch, which was originally scheduled for the end of 2024. But the company has taken aim at SpaceX even before takeoff.
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 ...
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 ...
Neutron is a partially reusable medium-lift two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab.Announced on 1 March 2021, the vehicle is designed to be capable of delivering a payload of 13,000 kg (28,700 lb) to low Earth orbit in a partially reusable configuration, [3] and will focus on the growing megaconstellation satellite delivery market. [4]
A National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload was successfully launched aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex-1 The Electron has flown 58 times since May 2017, with a total of 54 successes and 4 failures, Including 3 suborbital flight from the HASTE program.