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With Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, if you want to throw up to half a tonne of payload into LEO, you can do it for $7.5 million and do it on your own schedule. Buyers can control when the launch ...
Rocket Lab has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to participate within its Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $46 billion indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract ...
and which encloses a second stage that carries the rocket's payload and is expendable. And Rocket Lab had news last week on the payloads the second stage will carry as well. As it name implies ...
An Electron rocket lifted off from Pad A of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 9:31 p.m. Eastern. The payload of five satellites for Kinéis were deployed by the rocket’s kick ...
Space launch provider Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB ... a forthcoming medium-lift launch vehicle aimed at diversifying payload capacities. The firm has been working toward vertical integration ...
There's one problem, however: Rocket Lab has still not fully built the rocket that would be used on these missions. Named the Neutron, the medium-payload rocket system will be going through ...
The Electron rocket lifted off from Pad B of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 8 p.m. Eastern. The payload, the QPS-SAR-9 satellite, separated from the kick stage ...
A stack of Flatellites would fill up the 5.5-m-dia.-wide payload fairing of the Neutron rocket. Credit: Rocket Lab SEATTLE—Forget the battle of the billionaires—Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink ...