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Rocket Lab developed a launch facility at Wallops for its Electron rocket and will also use Wallops for its Neutron medium-class rocket while building a factory near the launch site to minimize transportation issues.
Rocket Lab raised nearly $300,000,000 in venture capital to develop the Electron small launch vehicle and the Photon satellite bus.
The 19th Electron mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 22:30 UTC on 2021-03-22.
Rocket Lab’s Electron mission named "They Go Up So Fast" launched a BlackSky satellite on 2021-03-22.
Rocket Lab spent about $100,000,000 to reach orbit with its Electron rocket.
Issues with NASA’s certification of an autonomous flight termination system have delayed the introduction of Electron launches from Wallops, potentially slipping the first Wallops Electron launch originally scheduled for 2020 to as late as November of an unspecified year.
Rocket Lab won a contract on 2021-09-08 for five Electron launches to deploy a 25-satellite internet-of-things constellation for French startup Kinéis.
A two-week launch window for Rocket Lab’s 22nd Electron mission opens 2021-11-11-24, 2021.
A two-week launch window for Rocket Lab’s 22nd Electron launch opens 2021-11-11 and runs through 2021-11-24.
Varda Space purchased three Photon satellite buses from Rocket Lab in August 2022 but did not choose Rocket Lab’s Electron for the initial launch.
Rocket Lab received a Phase 1 SBIR award from DARPA in 2015 for studies that included examining the use of Electron as an upper stage for DARPA’s XS-1 spaceplane and for flight data to support development of an autonomous flight termination system.
Two additional BlackSky satellites are scheduled to launch on Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission named 'A Data With Destiny' during a 14-day launch window that opens in December.
Airways New Zealand has supported Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches since 2017, when Rocket Lab launched its first rocket into space.
Rocket Lab has launched 21 Electron rockets from New Zealand deploying more than 100 satellites into orbit.
The 2021-11-17 mission was Rocket Lab’s third Electron mission to test the ability to recover and reuse the rocket’s first stage.
Rocket Lab designed the 2021-11-17 Electron improvements to increase reliability, reduce cost, increase performance, and offset recovery system costs.
Rocket Lab pioneered the use of carbon composite for orbital rockets with the Electron rocket, which has operated since 2018.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 is the company’s launch site for the Electron launch vehicle, which has been the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually since 2019.
Alba Orbital’s next mission, Alba Cluster X, is due to launch from New Zealand on Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in NET 2022-04-01.
Unseenlabs flew its BRO-7 satellite on Transporter-4 and plans to launch BRO-6 later 2022-04 on a Rocket Lab Electron with a long-term goal of operating 20 satellites.