September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... or sub-payloads, using rideshare and piggyback opportunities on larger launch vehicles. Recently, however, with the arrival of Rocket Lab, soon to be joined by other smallsat launch specialists like Firefly and Astra, this market also looks like...
April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... from the value chain, together with an aligned focus on swift, responsive support and environmentally sustainable operations. Rocket Lab offers the world’s only private orbital launch range in Mahia, New Zealand. An FAA-licensed spaceport, Launch...
17 December 2015
Google Lunar XPRIZE deadline extended until next year
... verification of their launch contract from XPRIZE as part of the competition. Moon Express will use a Rocket Lab Electron rocket combined with the company’s “MX-1E” micro-lander as part of a 2017 mission. “We are extremely proud to officially...
17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
...range of upcoming missions about securing rideshare slots aboard the Orbex rocket, which we expect will carry a complement of eight to ...the SpaceX Falcon 1 in 2009 and most recently the Rocket Lab Electron and the NASA ELaNa XIX mission that lifted 10...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... already hit the headlines when it announced that the company had a multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab for up to five launches starting in 2017 – the first company in history to secure such a contract at the time. And...
07 May 2019
US space enterprise experts set for the Military Space Conference
... US Air Force);Demaryl Singleton(Infrastructure and Development Division Chief, DISA);Lars Hoffman(SVP, Launch, Rocket Lab);Mike Lewis(Chief Innovation Officer, NanoRacks);Richard Cobb(Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and...
