Strong winds forced Rocket Lab to scrub its latest small-satellite mission just minutes before liftoff from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on Thursday evening local time. The team paused the countdown clock several times during the launch window, but it eventually ran out of time. Related NASA...
Ariane 5 Rocket Set to Launch Two Satellites Today Ariane 5 Rocket Launches 2 Communications Satellites Into Orbit Officials said ground teams needed more time to configure a downrange tracking station in Kenya. Once the problem was cleared, the countdown resumed under a computer-controlled synchr...
Watch Rocket Lab launch rocket with preflown engine for 1st time today Rocket Lab returns to flight with successful launch of Japanese satellite (video) Related: European spaceflight companies are racing to be the first to reach orbit Lo conseguimos! - we made it! @intaespana Per aspera, a...
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 rest of last year’s launches were made up of missions by NASA,Rocket Lab, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin,Astra,Virgin Orbit,Northrop Grumman,Boeingand Firefly. Freer’s office acts as a liaison between space companies, ranges or spaceports, and air traffic controllers, though the FAA...
SpaceX had hoped to launch the rocket Sunday evening, but problems with an Air Force tracking radar stopped the countdown just two-and-a-half minutes before liftoff. A second launch try Monday was ruled out because of predicted -- and realized -- low clouds and rain, setting up a second...