Rocket Labwill launch anElectron rocketfrom New Zealand for theIoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)mission, adding the final five IoT (Internet of Things) satellites to a 25-satellite constellation for tracking and real-time alerts across the globe. That mission is scheduled to launch from Rock...
Rocket Lab launched five satellites for a French technology company today (Sept. 20). The Rocket Lab launch, using the company's Electron rocket, occurred from New Zealand at 7:01 p.m. EDT (2301 GMT or 11:01 a.m. local time in New Zealand on Saturday, Sept. 21). The satellites ...
fired its nine first stage Rutherford engines in the final seconds of Thursday’s countdown. After a quick health check, computers commanded hold-down restraints to release the booster at 0420 GMT (12:20 a.m. EDT) from Launch Complex 1, Rocket Lab’s operations base on Mahia Peninsula ...
Rocket Lab is understandably excited at the prospect of watching its Electron rocket climbing skyward for the 50th time. “Making it to your first launch is not a given, so reaching 50 Electron launches is an enormous achievement and a rare feat in the history of spaceflight,” Rocket Lab fo...
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 1 at Mahia, New Zealand at 9:00 p.m., carrying two TROPICS CubeSats for NASA. Credit: Rocket Lab NASAsuccessfully launched the first two TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Co...
During that flight, a now-famous picture of Dyson captured her gazing down at the blue-and-white Earth suspended in the darkness of space as seen from the lab's multi-window Cupola compartment. A little more than an hour before the Soyuz launch, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon ...
Rocket Lab has selected Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia to build and launch Neutron, its fully reusable and return-to-launchpad rocket. Credit: Rocket Lab On Wallops Island, a remote community on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, a press corps assembled camera tripods in an open field ...
The final countdown before launch will begin shortly and so far everything is looking good. According to the latest information from the Cape Canaveral spaceport, nothing stands in the way of the launch. The New Glenn, named after the first US astronaut John Glenn to orbit the Earth, is cu...
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Jeff Foust -spacetoday.net A student rocket launch at theTeam America Rocketry Challengefinal competition in Virginia, May 11, 2003. The Challenge has been continued annually since then. Amateur rocketrynow ranges from themodel rocketsyou buy at your local hobby store tohigh power rocketsavailable...