government and commercial customers and its own Mission Control Center, Integration and Control Facility (ICF) with payload processing facilities and 100k class cleanrooms, and a vehicle integration bay capable of processing multiple Electron rockets at once to support rapid launches in quick succession. Launch Complex 2 was built to provide dependable and responsive launch access for Rocket Lab’s U.S. Launch Complex 2 supplements Rocket Lab’s first launch site, Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, from which the Company has launched 32 Electron missions since 2017. “Stronger Together” is Rocket Lab’s second mission from Launch Complex 2, following the Company’s first mission from U.S. Dedicated and responsive space access for small sats is here now, made possible by Electron.” “This year we’re really picking up the launch pace so while one Electron was on the pad at Launch Complex 2 for Capella Space, the team in New Zealand has been preparing the next rocket at Launch Complex 1 to enable two launches from two continents within days of each other. "Congratulations to Capella Space and well done to the Rocket Lab team for another flawless launch from Virginia,” said Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck. Rocket Lab successfully deployed two 100-kg class Capella Space satellites to low Earth orbit. The “Stronger Together” mission lifted off at 22:38 UTC, Mafrom Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Follow us on Twitter (opens in new tab) or on Facebook (opens in new tab). Follow him on Twitter (opens in new tab). Mike Wall is the author of " Out There (opens in new tab) " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. EDT on March 16 with news of successful launch and satellite deployment. ET, then updated again on March 14 with the new launch date of March 16. It was updated again at 8 p.m. ET on March 11, was updated on March 13 to reflect a new launch date of March 15 at 6 p.m. But there was no such recovery attempt on "Stronger Together."Įditor's note: This story, originally posted at 6 a.m. Rocket Lab has been working to make the expendable Electron's first stage reusable the company has recovered boosters on several previous missions, even plucking a falling rocket out of the sky with a helicopter on one occasion. LC-2 "is designed to serve the responsive space needs of commercial, civil, defense and national security customers, supporting up to 12 missions per year," Rocket Lab wrote in a statement (opens in new tab). The Wallops site, Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), will get more and more action over the coming months, if all goes according to plan. The other Virginia flight, a mission named "Virginia Is for Launch Lovers," lifted off from Wallops on Jan. Rocket Lab has now launched 34 orbital missions with the two-stage Electron to date, all but two of them from its Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Rocket Lab plans to snag falling boosters with a helicopter and refly them Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling booster with a helicopter (video) Rocket Lab: Private spaceflight company for small satellites
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