News Archive / Tagged: Rocket Lab

• Electron rocket launches secret NROL-199 payload

  Derek RichardsonAugust 4th, 2022

  The second of two back-to-back Rocket Lab Electron launches has orbited the NROL-199 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

• UPDATE: Contact with CAPSTONE re-established

  Derek RichardsonJuly 5th, 2022

  NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft, designed to pave the way for the Artemis program’s Lunar Gateway outpost, has “experienced communications issues.”

• NASA’s CAPSTONE pathfinder mission launched toward the Moon

  Theresa CrossJune 28th, 2022

  A small CubeSat called CAPSTONE is on its way to the Moon to evaluate a special orbit destined to be used for NASA’s Lunar Gateway space station.

• Helicopter snags falling Electron rocket before dropping it

  Theresa CrossMay 3rd, 2022

  A Rocket Lab helicopter successfully caught a returning Electron rocket booster as it parachuted back to Earth, only to release it moments later.

• Rocket Lab to try catch 1st stage of its next Electron rocket

  Theresa CrossApril 28th, 2022

  Rocket 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.

• Rocket Lab’s Electron flies from new pad in New Zealand

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 28th, 2022

  In Rocket Lab’s inaugural launch from a new pad, the company’s Electron rocket orbited a small satellite for Synspective.

• Loss of payload follows Rocket Lab flight anomaly

  Cullen DesforgesMay 15th, 2021

  Rocket 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.

• NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar mission to fly later this year

  Theresa CrossMay 13th, 2021

  Later 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.

• Rocket Lab to build a medium-class rocket called Neutron

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 1st, 2021

  Rocket 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.

• Rocket Lab’s Electron launches seven small satellites from New Zealand

  Laurel KornfeldJune 29th, 2019

  Rocket Lab, a private American company that manufactures and launches small satellites, put seven satellites via its Electron vehicle during a launch from New Zealand.

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 11, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 11th, 2019

  This week, Blue Origin unveiled its Blue Moon lander while SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon arrived at the International Space Station.

• 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.

• Rocket Lab adds spacecraft building program

  Jim SharkeyApril 13th, 2019

  Rocket Lab unveiled its in-house developed and built Photon satellite platform at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

• Rocket Lab Electron orbits DARPA’s R3D2 prototype antenna

  Rae Botsford EndMarch 28th, 2019

  Although a few weeks after initially scheduled, Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle successfully orbited a prototype satellite for DARPA.

• Rocket Lab aiming to launch mission for DARPA

  Jason RhianJanuary 30th, 2019

  One of the first flights on Rocket Lab's 2019 launch manifest is a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.