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Rocket Lab is slated to deploy NorthStar’s initial batch of satellites from its launch site in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab and Spire committed to deliver NorthStar’s satellites to space on an accelerated timeline.
Rocket Lab USA successfully launched its first suborbital testbed launch vehicle, called HASTE, for a confidential customer.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia serves as the launch site for HASTE.
HASTE is derived from Rocket Lab's Electron rocket but features a modified Kick Stage for hypersonic payload deployment.
Rocket Lab's wholly-owned subsidiary, Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), will primarily operate HASTE.
The inaugural launch of HASTE took place on June 17 at 21:24 Eastern local time from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
The 2023-06-17 HASTE flight was the sixth Electron launch for Rocket Lab in 2023.
The inaugural HASTE launch launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab did not announce the HASTE launch in advance and did not provide a webcast for the flight.
Rocket Lab plans to launch HASTE exclusively from Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket Lab launched the first suborbital variant of its Electron vehicle, Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE), on 2023-06-17.
The inaugural HASTE launch launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Rocket Lab projected 15 Electron launches overall in 2023, a figure that includes both orbital and HASTE missions.
Rocket Lab developed, manufactured, and tested the Varda spacecraft at its Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab has a $143,000,000 subcontract from MDA to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar’s new Low Earth Orbit satellites.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule that will produce pharmaceutical products in microgravity and return them to Earth.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft for Varda launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission on 2023-06-12 at 14:35 PDT (21:35 UTC).
Rocket Lab bought Virgin Orbit’s main production facility in Long Beach at the 2023-05-22 auction.
The Varda spacecraft incorporates Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured star trackers, propulsion system, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.