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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) was selected as a successful bidder to purchase certain Long Beach, California aerospace production and manufacturing assets from Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. in Virgin Orbit’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.
Rocket Lab’s bid includes the assumption of the lease to Virgin Orbit’s 144,000+ square foot headquarters and manufacturing complex at 4022 E. Conant St. in Long Beach, California (the Conant Facility).
Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle achieved its first orbital launch in January 2018.
Rocket Lab will use the leased Long Beach facility to support development of its Neutron rocket.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand and a third pad in Virginia.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is preparing the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.
Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle has been providing access to orbit for NASA since 2018.
Starling joins other NASA missions launched by Rocket Lab since 2018, including the ELaNa-19 educational CubeSat program, the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon, and two dedicated Electron launches for the NASA TROPICS mission.
Rocket Lab completed the 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' Electron launch on 2023-05-08 which deployed the first two CubeSats of NASA’s TROPICS constellation.
Rocket Lab USA has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft is a configurable spacecraft bus platform that can support missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary destinations.
The Photon spacecraft was developed, manufactured, and tested at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
A high-energy variant of Rocket Lab’s Photon was developed and launched in 2022 and successfully deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
Rocket Lab completed and shipped a custom Photon spacecraft developed for Varda Space Industries.
The Rocket Lab-designed and built Photon 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.
All Photon spacecraft incorporate Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured components and software including star trackers, propulsion, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
Rocket Lab USA signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission.
The Rocket Lab-designed and built Photon spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft is a configurable spacecraft bus platform that can support missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary destinations.