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Rocket Lab has announced a new $14.49 million task order award from the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to launch another Electron rocket from Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Rocket Lab said it was awarded a $14.49 million task order by the U.S. Space Force to launch an Electron mission from Launch Complex 2. The mission, called Space Test Program-30, falls under the Space Systems Command Assured Access to Space organization and is part of Orbital Services Program-4.

Rocket Lab USA will launch an Electron vehicle to support the Space Test Program-S30 mission under a task order awarded by the U.S. Space Force. STP-S30 will deploy to orbit technology demonstrations and research experiments for the Department of Defense and support future development of space systems, Rocket Lab said Monday.

From a launch perspective, Rocket Lab USA Inc. has always been focused on execution.

"Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding," reports TechCrunch, "just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit." Varda has now raised $145 million to date, the article points out, and the $90 million in new Series B funding "marks an inflection poi...

A new type of SpaceX rideshare program made its first launch from the Space Coast coupled with a land recovery of its first-stage booster that brought a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

Rocket Lab USA will launch a group of experimental payloads to very low earth orbit (VLEO) in April 2026.

Trading of United States technology stocks has taken Sharesies by storm in a month where saw New Zealanders invested a record $488 million on the online...

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A US space industry event is to hear about why space-related businesses should set up shop in New Zealand.