Rocket Lab plans to retrieve a rocket booster mid-air using a helicopter during a mission scheduled to take place in the first half of 2022. The company said Tuesday it will deploy a helicopter to attempt to catch a falling booster in support of its goal to market Electron as a reusable small rocket. “A […] More

Rocket Lab has launched a U.S. Space Force research and development mission that will demonstrate the effect of relatively large deployable sensors on small satellite attitude control. The Monolith satellite reached low-Earth orbit following liftoff from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand as part of the Electron rocket’s 21st overall mission, the company said Thursday. […] More

Rocket Lab has received a contract to design and build two Photon spacecraft to support a science mission to Mars. The twin spacecraft, dubbed Blue and Gold, are expected to launch in 2024 for the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, which is one of the three missions that NASA selected in 2019 […] More

Rocket Lab has built an industrial robotic platform that works to speed up the production of carbon composite parts for the Electron rocket, Space News reported Wednesday.

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Rocket Lab has unveiled plans to make the Electron launch vehicle's first stage reusable for multiple future missions. The  reusability approach is intended to boost the frequency of launches without the need to always produce new first stages, Rocket Lab said Tuesday.

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Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket took off Saturday from a launch complex in New Zealand to bring seven satellites to orbit for space mission management and rideshare provider Spaceflight.

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Rocket Lab plans to launch its Electron rocket in June to carry multiple satellites into orbit for space rideshare and mission management provider Spaceflight. The mission will be the seventh Electron launch and the company’s third for 2019, following two launches for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force, Rocket Lab said Friday. 

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Lockheed Martin has secured two contracts worth up to $31 million combined to help the U.K. space agency build a small satellite deployment platform and a launch site, Space News reported Tuesday. The first contract instructs Lockheed Martin to support Scottish government agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise in establishing a vertical launch spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland. The […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency unveiled a new collection of digital elevation models of the Arctic at Esri’s two-day Federal GIS conference that kicked off Monday in Washington. NGA presented the new collection as part of the ArcticDEM project – a public-private partnership between NGA, Esri and the Polar Geospatial Center that seeks to generate high-resolution […] More

Esri and the ArcticDEM project have unveiled new elevation models and updated previously released systems to offer a resource for adaptation and planning to groups in the Arctic region that face potential climate change concerns. Esri said Tuesday that accessibility to its online platform will help ArcticDEM address a requirement elevation data in remote locations and […] More

The Federal Aviation Administration has given Rocket Lab permission to launch small satellites for government customers from a company-operated facility at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. Rocket Lab said Tuesday it can use the Electron rocket to perform multiple smallsat missions  from  Launch Complex 2 with the FAA-issued operator license with five-year validity.

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