Rocket Lab, Electron: BlackSky — Fasten Your Space BeltsFeb. 18 — Pad B, Launch Complex 1; New Zealand February 18, 6:15 p.m. ET (2315 GMT, 12:15 pm NZDT, Feb. 19): Rocket Lab will launch an Electron rocket from the company's Pad B, at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zea...
With NASA selecting Rocket Lab, they are able to get these two CubeSats to orbit much faster to begin their science mission instead of waiting on a rideshare mission on a much larger rocket. The Ready, Aim, PREFIRE mission was Rocket Lab’s sixth of the year and its 48th overall. Rocke...
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches the second of two cubesats for NASA's PREFIRE climate mission from New Zealand on June 4, 2024. (Image credit: Rocket Lab via X) PREFIRE is short for "Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment." As that name suggests, the mission will stu...
"The ELaNa-19 mission was a significant one for NASA, the Rocket Lab team and the small satellite industry overall," Beck said, adding, "To launch two missions just five weeks apart, and in the first year of orbital flights, is unprecedented. It's exactly what the small satellite industry...
The company said the next Rocket Lab Electron vehicle will be on the pad at Launch Complex 1 in January 2019. RELATED COVERAGE It's Business Time: Rocket Lab mission finally launches from New Zealand After first scheduled to launch in late June, Rocket Lab's It's Business Time has successf...
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 1 at Mahia, New Zealand at 11:46 a.m, May 25, 2023, carrying two TROPICS CubeSats for NASA. Credit: Rocket Lab NASAsuccessfully launched the final pair of satellites for its TROPICS mission from New Zealand. The four CubeSats in...
Rocket Lab is preparing for back-to-back missions for NASA, which will see them launch twice within three weeks from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
An Electron rocket blasts off from Rocket Lab's picturesque Mahia, New Zealand, launch site, carrying two small NASA satellites designed to monitor tropical storm development.Rocket Lab "The threat to our friends and neighbors is real and repeats every year," said Ben Kim, a program executive ...
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a deal
the first time that NASA cubesats have not had to share a rocket ride with a much bigger “primary payload,” Rocket Lab representatives said. (Ten of the 13 satellites are specific ELaNa payloads; the other three are also NASA cubesats, Rocket Lab spokeswoman Morgan Bailey told Space.com....