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3/28/2019
Blue Canyon Technologies provided the satellite bus for R3D2.
As of March 6, 2019, Rocket Lab designated a 14-day launch window for the DARPA R3D2 mission from March 17 through March 30, 2019 NZDT, with lift-off scheduled between 11:30 and 15:30 NZDT (22:30–02:30 UTC) within that window.
Rocket Lab announced on January 22, 2019 that its first mission of 2019 would be a dedicated launch of a 150 kg satellite for DARPA's R3D2 program.
MMA Design is providing the antenna for the R3D2 spacecraft and Blue Canyon Technologies is providing the satellite bus.
Rocket Lab plans to perform 12 launches in 2019, with the R3D2 mission as the first.
Northrop Grumman built the R3D2 satellite for DARPA that launched on 2019-03-28 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket to demonstrate deployment of a large antenna from a small satellite.