by David Todd | Jul 6, 2020 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
While Rocket Lab had been enjoying recent success, both in terms of launches and sales, the wheels have suddenly come off with the failure of its Electron rocket on 4th July. The launch vehicle took off from the Mahia Peninsula launch site in New Zealand at 2116 GMT.... 
by David Todd | Jun 22, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
Rocket Lab, the US-New Zealand-based small launch provider, has won a two-launch RASR (Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket) contract from the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Both launches on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will take place from the company’s... by David Todd | Apr 15, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
After delays to Vega’s launch schedule caused by a failure, the shutdown of the Kourou launch site in French Guiana due to the coronavirus outbreak was the last straw for the prospective Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation operator, Synspective. The... 
by David Todd | Jan 21, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The idea of “rapid launch” – much mooted in the past – is finally becoming a reality. New Zealand-based rocket provider Rocket Lab has announced that the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has ordered an Electron launch for its NRO-151 mission, unofficially... 
by Matt Wilson | Dec 9, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Lifting-off at 0818 GMT, 6 December 2019, the tenth Electron rocket from Rocket Lab has carried seven satellites in to orbit. The mission took place from the Rocket Lab facility in the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, on its way to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This is the...
