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Rocket Lab completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal at Launch Complex 2 and the mission is awaiting range clearances from NASA and the FAA to proceed with launch.
Rocket Lab projected overall revenue of $51–54 million for the first quarter of 2023.
Rocket Lab delivered a Capella satellite to space previously on the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical mission in August 2020.
The planned launches in early 2023 position Rocket Lab to conduct as many as 15 Electron launches in 2023.
The four newly signed Capella Space missions are planned to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand with flexibility to move any mission to Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia if required.
Each Capella Space mission will feature separation systems produced by Rocket Lab in line with the company’s vertical integration strategy.
Rocket Lab has launched national launching security payloads developed in partnership with Australia’s Department of Defence.
Rocket Lab established a wholly-owned subsidiary named Rocket Lab Australia on 2023-02-28.
Globalstar selected MDA and Rocket Lab in February 2022 to supply an initial 17 satellites for launch by the end of 2025 under a contract worth $327,000,000.
Astroscale plans to launch a spacecraft on a Rocket Lab Electron early 2023 to inspect a discarded upper stage of a Japanese H2-A rocket under a JAXA contract called ADRAS-J.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron is designed to lift 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit with a recoverable first stage or up to 15,000 kg to low Earth orbit with an expendable first stage.
Federal ranges accounted for 50 of 69 FAA-licensed launches in fiscal year 2022, representing 83% of U.S. FAA-licensed launches when excluding Rocket Lab’s Electron launches from New Zealand.
EscaPADE redesigned its mission to use Photon satellite buses from Rocket Lab and could launch as soon as 2024.
The Frontier-X radio has completed qualification and is slated to fly on NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars for which Rocket Lab is developing and building two spacecraft.
Rocket Lab announced in 2021 that it would develop redesigned versions of the ESCAPADE spacecraft for launch in 2024, and the mission passed a review that year to proceed into full-scale development.
Rocket Lab received a VADR task order in November for launching four TROPICS cubesats and the procurement database later listed that award at $12,990,000 with about $2,600,000 obligated to date.
Space firms that went public through SPAC deals include Astra, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, BlackSky, Spire, AST SpaceMobile, Satellogic, Planet, Terran Orbital, Virgin Galactic, Redwire, and Momentus.
Rocket Lab’s Frontier-X is a high-speed X-band ranging RF transceiver designed to support near Earth, cislunar, and deep space small satellite missions and provide an affordable LEO payload downlink.
Combined Rocket Lab space systems components, including star trackers, reaction wheels, separation systems, radios, flight software, ground software, and solar power solutions, have supported more than 1,700 space missions to date.
Spacecraft owned and operated by the U.S. government were launched aboard vehicles owned by SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and United Launch Alliance in 2022.