Rocket Lab Successfully Launches First Electron Mission of Busy 2024 Launch Schedule
31 Gennaio 2024 - 9:37AM
Business Wire
The ‘Four Of A Kind’ mission also included a
successful splashdown of Electron’s first stage from the ocean
after launch, furthering Rocket Lab’s efforts to make Electron the
world’s first reusable small orbital rocket.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the
Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems,
today launched its first Electron mission for 2024, a space-junk
focused mission for Spire Global, Inc (“Spire”) and NorthStar Earth
& Space (“NorthStar”).
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Electron's first stage sits on top of the
water ahead of recovery operations to retrieve it following a
successful return to Earth from space. (Photo: Business Wire)
The ‘Four Of A Kind’ mission for Spire’s customer NorthStar
successfully launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New
Zealand at 19:34 NZDT / 06:34 UTC. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket
deployed four Space Situational Awareness (SSA) satellites to a
530km circular Earth orbit where the satellites, built and operated
by Spire, will monitor near-Earth objects from space to provide
timely and precise information for space object detection,
tracking, orbit determination, collision avoidance, navigation, and
proximity alerts. The mission was Rocket Lab’s 43rd Electron launch
overall, bringing the Company’s record of successfully deployed
satellites to 176. The mission was the first of a busy launch year
for Rocket Lab, with the Company scheduled to launch more in 2024
than any previous year since the Company began missions in
2017.
The mission also resulted in the successful return of the
rocket’s first stage after launch as part of Rocket Lab’s plan to
evolve Electron into a reusable rocket. After launch and stage
separation, Electron’s booster made its way back to Earth under a
parachute and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at approximately
17 minutes post lift-off. Rocket Lab’s recovery operations are
currently underway to retrieve the stage and bring it back to the
Company’s production complex for a post-launch review and analysis
before proceeding to one of the program’s final tasks: reusing a
previously-launched first stage on a future mission.
Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck, says: “The success of
today’s mission to deliver Spire & NorthStar to orbit, and the
completion of our secondary mission to return Electron to Earth
after launch, has been a fantastic start of what is set to be
Rocket Lab’s busiest year ever. We have more missions booked in
2024 than we’ve ever scheduled before, and it is a real privilege
to continue to deliver small launch reliability for our satellite
customers on advanced missions like these and for all the missions
to come in 2024.”
‘Four Of A Kind’ is Rocket Lab’s first Electron launch in a
sold-out 2024 mission manifest that includes multiple upcoming
launches for NASA; hypersonic technology tests on suborbital HASTE
missions from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia; the
beginning or continuation of block launches for satellite operators
BlackSky, Synspective, and Kineis; and several other launches for
commercial and defense sector mission partners.
+ About Rocket Lab
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with
an established track record of mission success. We deliver reliable
launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft components, and
on-orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier, and more
affordable to access space. Headquartered in Long Beach,
California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small
orbital launch vehicle, the Photon satellite platform, and the
Company is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for
constellation deployment. Since its first orbital launch in January
2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second
most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 176
satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations,
enabling operations in national security, scientific research,
space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and
communications. Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been
selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as
the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket Lab has three
launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a
private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third
launch pad in Virginia. To learn more, visit
www.rocketlabusa.com.
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