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Rocket Lab expects it is unlikely to complete all 22 projected Electron launches in 2024 because of customer schedule delays.
Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has delivered more than 180 satellites to orbit.
Rocket Lab is constructing Launch Complex 3 at Wallops Island, Virginia for Neutron operations.
The satellite buses for the Space Development Agency will be a derivative of the satellite buses Rocket Lab is developing for Globalstar.
Rocket Lab is the prime contractor on a $515,000,000 firm-fixed-price agreement to lead the design, development, production, test, and operations of 18 satellites for SDA’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta (T2TL - Beta).
Parsons Corporation will supply NEBULA Operations – Vendor Architecture (NOVA) as Rocket Lab’s ground system to manage operations for its 18 SDA satellites.
Rocket Lab is manufacturing 18 satellites for the Space Development Agency under a $515,000,000 contract.
The 18 satellites being developed by Rocket Lab will integrate in-house subsystems and components including solar panels, structures, star trackers, reaction wheels, radio, flight software, avionics, and launch dispensers.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) completed selection of subcontractors to provide payloads and ground systems for the 18 satellites the company is developing for the Space Development Agency (SDA).
Rocket Lab selected suppliers on 2024-05-06 to support production of 18 satellites for the U.S. military.
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been contracted by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: RKLB) to provide antennas and RF hardware for Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta variant satellites.
Mynaric will supply the optical communications terminals for Rocket Lab’s Space Development Agency satellites.
NASA’s ACS3 satellite launched on Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle on 2024-04-23.
Rocket Lab conducted two back-to-back Electron launches for the TROPICS mission in May 2023.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon on Electron and the spacecraft was deployed by a Rocket Lab Explorer spacecraft bus.
Each of the two dedicated PREFIRE missions will deploy one satellite to a 525 km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab USA is preparing two back-to-back Electron launches to deploy NASA’s PREFIRE mission.
Each of the two dedicated Rocket Lab missions will deploy one satellite to a 525 km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing two back-to-back Electron launches to deploy NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.
Rocket Lab USA, True Anomaly, Space Exploration Engineering, and Eta Space will assist Gravitics in refining mission architecture, developing use-case-specific outfitting, and developing flight hardware under the contract.