News Archive / Tagged: Rocket Lab
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Helicopter snags falling Electron rocket before dropping it
Theresa CrossMay 3rd, 2022A Rocket Lab helicopter successfully caught a returning Electron rocket booster as it parachuted back to Earth, only to release it moments later.
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Rocket Lab to try catch 1st stage of its next Electron rocket
Theresa CrossApril 28th, 2022Rocket Lab is going to attempt to catch the first stage of its next Electron rocket with a helicopter as it returns from space under a parachute.
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Rocket Lab’s Electron flies from new pad in New Zealand
Derek RichardsonFebruary 28th, 2022In Rocket Lab’s inaugural launch from a new pad, the company’s Electron rocket orbited a small satellite for Synspective.
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Loss of payload follows Rocket Lab flight anomaly
Cullen DesforgesMay 15th, 2021Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from the shores of New Zealand on May 15 at 11:11 UTC, but unfortunately suffered an unexpected anomaly during staging.
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NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar mission to fly later this year
Theresa CrossMay 13th, 2021Later this year, NASA plans to launch a CubeSat to test a special orbit around the Moon to verify its characteristics in advance of sending the Lunar Gateway there as early as 2024.
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Rocket Lab to build a medium-class rocket called Neutron
Cullen DesforgesMarch 1st, 2021Rocket Lab announced in a company-produced video that it will be building a new rocket called Neutron, which is expected to be capable of carrying eight metric tons of payload.
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Rocket Lab’s Electron launches seven small satellites from New Zealand
Laurel KornfeldJune 29th, 2019Rocket Lab, a private American company that manufactures and launches small satellites, put seven satellites via its Electron vehicle during a launch from New Zealand.
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Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 11, 2019
Derek RichardsonMay 11th, 2019This week, Blue Origin unveiled its Blue Moon lander while SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon arrived at the International Space Station.
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6th Electron rocket launched from New Zealand
Derek RichardsonMay 5th, 2019“That’s a Funny Looking Cactus.” In fact, it’s no cactus at all, rather an Electron rocket sending payloads into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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Rocket Lab adds spacecraft building program
Jim SharkeyApril 13th, 2019Rocket Lab unveiled its in-house developed and built Photon satellite platform at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Rocket Lab Electron orbits DARPA’s R3D2 prototype antenna
Rae Botsford EndMarch 28th, 2019Although a few weeks after initially scheduled, Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle successfully orbited a prototype satellite for DARPA.
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Rocket Lab aiming to launch mission for DARPA
Jason RhianJanuary 30th, 2019One of the first flights on Rocket Lab's 2019 launch manifest is a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Rocket Lab fields an array of NASA CubeSats on its latest success
Joe LatrellDecember 16th, 2018Rocket Lab successfully launched another Electron rocket from its private launch complex in Mahia, New Zealand. The rocket vaulted from the pad at 06:33 UTC (19:33 NZDT) carrying 10 CubeSats for NASA as part of the agency's ELaNa 19 mission.
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Finally ‘business time’ for Rocket Lab with 7 payloads launched
Rae Botsford EndNovember 11th, 2018Rocket Lab sent its third Electron rocket into orbit on the company's first fully-commercial mission, called "It's Business Time."
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Rocket Lab announces new launch site at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility
Jason RhianOctober 18th, 2018California-based Rocket Lab has announced a new site from which it plans to fly its Electron rocket from - one based in the United States.