Rocket Lab reveals plans for reusable rocket with 8 ton payload

Posted on 01/03/2021 by Engadget

Rocket Lab is developing a larger rocket that can carry bigger payloads than its current reusable trooper, the Electron. At 131 feet tall, the Neutron launch vehicle will be more than double the size of its predecessor and will also outstrip it in te...

Rocket Lab tested its parachute system on a live booster for the first time

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Engadget

New Zealand’s Rocket Lab successfully launched argo of 30 cube satellites into a 500 km wide arc in low Earth orbit during its sixth mission of the year on Thursday. More importantly, this launch served as the first live test of the first stage recov...

Rocket Lab secretly launched its own satellite designed to go to the Moon

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab recently made a successful return to flight and launched a client satellite from its Electron Rocket, but that’s not all that happened on the mission. The company also secretly launched its own satellite, called Photon, that could one day...

Rocket Lab gains FAA approval to launch satellites from US soil

Posted on 02/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab is on a roll this week. After successfully returning to launch following a failure in July, the company announced that it has received FAA clearance to launch small satellites from its Electron rockets in the US. So far, all its missions h...

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket makes a successful return to flight

Posted on 31/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab has made a successful return to flight following a failure last month. The company’s Electron rocket launched a 100 kg (220 pound) Earth observation satellite from its facility on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand at 11:05 PM EDT on Augus...

Rocket Lab will resume launches no sooner than August 27th

Posted on 22/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab has narrowed down the timeframe for its return to launches following its failure in early July. The private rocket outfit has opened a 13-day launch window for its next mission starting August 27th at 11:05PM Eastern. There will be “daily”...

Rocket Lab will resume missions in August following launch failure

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle will resume ferrying satellites and other payloads to space this month. The FAA has given the company the go-ahead to launch Electron rockets again after figuring out why its 13th mission ended in failure. In early July,...

Rocket Lab mission fails shortly after launch

Posted on 05/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Rocket Lab’s 13th Electron launch has ended in disaster. The company reported that its “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” mission failed during the second stage burn about four minutes into the flight, resulting in the loss of both the rocket as well as the...

Watch Rocket Lab launch a Canon satellite into space at 5:19PM ET

Posted on 04/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Public fireworks shows may be in short supply this weekend due to the pandemic, but Rocket Lab is ready to fill the gap. It’s planning to launch its 13th mission, “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen,” from a complex on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 5:19PM E...

Rocket Lab proves it can recover a rocket in mid-air

Posted on 08/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Last year, Rocket Lab announced that it would attempt to reuse the first stage of its Electron rocket. The company’s goal is to catch the stage as it falls back towards the ocean by plucking it out of mid-air with a helicopter. While that’s ambitious...

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