All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The Space Development Agency awarded Rocket Lab a $515,000,000 contract to build and operate 18 spacecraft that will be part of a low Earth orbit network of military satellites.
Rocket Lab’s Long Beach spacecraft facility includes a 12,000-square-foot cleanroom and 40,000 square feet of streamlined production and test facilities designed to support constellation-class manufacturing and satellite assembly, integration, and test for commercial, civil, and national security customers.
The satellite buses for the Space Development Agency will be a derivative of the buses Rocket Lab is developing for the communications company Globalstar.
Rocket Lab’s Long Beach facility includes a 12,000-square-foot cleanroom and 40,000 square feet of streamlined production and test facilities designed to support constellation-class manufacturing and satellite assembly, integration, and test.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) set the launch window for the ‘Four of a Kind’ mission no earlier than 2024-01-18 between 19:15-20:00 NZT (2024-01-18 between 06:15-07:00 UTC).
The 18 satellites will be built at Rocket Lab’s spacecraft development and manufacturing complex in Long Beach, which includes a 12,000-square-foot cleanroom and 40,000 square feet of production and test facilities.
Rocket Lab is developing a larger rocket called Neutron that is projected to debut in 2025.
Rocket Lab will act as prime contractor under a $515,000,000 firm-fixed-price agreement to lead the design, development, production, test, and operations of the 18 T2TL – Beta satellites, including procurement and integration of the payload subsystems.
Rocket Lab was selected by the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL-Beta).
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has been selected by the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL – Beta).
The T2TL – Beta satellites will be built at Rocket Lab’s advanced spacecraft development and manufacturing complex within the company’s Long Beach, California headquarters.
Rocket Lab is the third supplier for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta satellites, which are projected to launch in mid-2027.
The Space Development Agency awarded a firm-fixed-price Other Transaction Authority agreement to Rocket Lab National Security LLC to deliver and operate a T2TL – Beta prototype constellation in two orbital planes of nine satellites each, launching no later than July 2027.
The United States conducted 116 launches in 2023, a total that includes Rocket Lab Electron launches from New Zealand.
The RW-0.01 10 mNms reaction wheel from Rocket Lab is designed for smaller CubeSats with an orbital lifetime of 10 years.
The RW-0.01 from Rocket Lab has a torque of ±1 mNm, a momentum of up to 0.018 Nms, a mass of 0.12 kg, and uses diamond-coated hybrid ball bearings with redundant motor windings.
The ST-16RT2 from Rocket Lab has an absolute accuracy of 5–55 arcsec, a maximum slew rate of 3 deg/sec, a mass of 0.158 kg, a field of view of 7.5 x 10 deg (half-angle), requires a DC supply of 9–34 V, consumes up to 1 W, and measures 62 x 56 x 0.038 m.
The RW-0.01 from Rocket Lab requires a DC supply of 3.4-6 V and has a power consumption of up to 1.05 W while measuring 50 × 50 × 0.03 m.
Rocket Lab is developing a larger rocket called Neutron that is expected to debut in 2025.
Rocket Lab established a national security subsidiary focused on the U.S. defense and intelligence market in 2022.