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The 2024-11-05 mission was Rocket Lab’s 12th Electron launch in 2024.
Rocket Lab successfully launched an unidentified satellite to sun-synchronous orbit on 2024-11-05 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate for the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2023, doubling rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
Rocket Lab initially projected the launch could occur as soon as 2024-10-19 but postponed it to early November to complete final checkouts.
A Rocket Lab Electron launched a commercial payload on 2024-11-05.
The 'Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes' mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 11:54 p.m. on 2024-11-05.
Rocket Lab signed the launch contract for the 2024-11-05 mission less than ten weeks before lift-off, making it one of the fastest contract-to-launch turnarounds in the company’s history.
The expedited mission represented Rocket Lab’s fastest turnaround from signed contract to launch date to date.
Rocket Lab’s 2024 total of 12 Electron launches exceeded the company’s previous annual record of 10 launches set in 2023.
The U.S. Space Force selected Rocket Lab to build and launch Victus Haze, a 2025 in-space surveillance mission that will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations with a True Anomaly satellite.
Rocket Lab expects Neutron development costs to range between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000.
Rocket Lab received $24,000,000 from the U.S. Space Force to support work on Neutron’s second stage.
Rocket Lab is producing Neutron engines at a former Virgin Orbit facility in Long Beach, California that Rocket Lab acquired after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy.
Rocket Lab’s Electron small-satellite launch vehicle has flown to orbit 53 times since its 2017 debut, with 49 successes and four failures from launch sites in New Zealand and Virginia.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate in the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
A launch window for 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' opens on 2024-10-19 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab will launch a mission named 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' on Monday, 2024-11-04 at 2:30 AM PST from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab was set to launch 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' on Saturday, 2024-10-19 at 3:30 AM PDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab added a last-minute Electron launch to its 2024 manifest for a commercial mission with a launch window opening 2024-10-19.
The expedited 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' mission achieved Rocket Lab’s fastest turnaround to date from signed contract to launch in less than two months.