Rocket Lab expands launch footprint with first mission from US
The mission marked Rocket Lab's first outside its flagship launchsite on the Māhia Peninsula in Hawke's Bay.
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The mission marked Rocket Lab's first outside its flagship launchsite on the Māhia Peninsula in Hawke's Bay.
Rocket Lab secured an agreement to use the Launch Complex 2 site in Virginia in 2018. Tuesday's mission had been delayed several times, initially by nearly a year over a lengthy certification review of Electron's automated flight termination system, then a few more weeks due to bad weather in Virginia.
Rocket Lab has successfully completed the company's first space mission to low earth orbit carrying 3 Satellites of Hawkeye 360, stock is up.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rocket Lab launched its first mission from American soil on Tuesday, kicking off an expansion of the company's launch business ...
--The mission was Rocket Lab's 33rd Electron mission overall but the first launched from U.S. soil, introducing a new responsive launch capability to the nation