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Rocket Lab reported a net loss of $26,700,000 for the first quarter of 2022.
Around ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers that stretch its orbit into a prominent ellipse around Earth.
Rocket Lab’s April 2022 Electron launch carrying two BlackSky imaging satellites was postponed from late March 2022 because of weather.
Rocket Lab’s 2022-05-02 launch carrying 34 smallsats was treated primarily as an R&D platform and produced only a de minimis revenue contribution.
Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the Moon.
Rocket Lab will begin payload integration of CAPSTONE with the Electron rocket and Photon spacecraft bus ahead of the launch window opening on 2022-05-31.
Approximately ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers.
CAPSTONE will be launched to an initial low Earth orbit by Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle and then placed on a ballistic lunar transfer by Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus.
Rocket Lab operates two Photon spacecraft in low Earth orbit, and the CAPSTONE mission is the first to employ the high-energy variant of the Photon spacecraft bus powered by the HyperCurie engine designed for lunar and interplanetary missions.
Rocket Lab tested a midair recovery of its Electron booster during a 2022-05-02 launch.
The agreement with MDA and Rocket Lab includes an option for up to nine additional satellites at $11,400,000 each.
Virgin Orbit, Firefly Aerospace, Rocket Lab, and Astra contributed to US launch activity in 2021 by offering services in the small launch segment.
On 2022-02-24, Globalstar selected MDA and Rocket Lab to supply 17 satellites to replenish its constellation after a potential customer agreed to fund most of the $327,000,000 project.
In 2020 the AFRL rocket lab signed an agreement with ABL Space Systems to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion components for future use in launch vehicles.
Rocket Lab will launch a cubesat to the Moon in May 2022.
On 2022-05-02, a Rocket Lab Electron launched carrying 34 smallsats.
Rocket Lab built a new building at its New Zealand launch site for fueling spacecraft with hydrazine because previous Electron payloads did not use hydrazine.
The "There And Back Again" mission launched from Pad A at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 10:49 am NZST on 2022-05-03.
The mid-air capture attempt followed previous Rocket Lab recovery operations on missions 16, 20, and 22 that executed controlled ocean splashdowns and returned stages to Rocket Lab’s production complex.
Rocket Lab is postponing the 'There and Back Again' rideshare mission to no earlier than 2022-05-01 with a launch window of 22:35–00:40 UTC.