15 May 2017
Electron rocket gets ready for first flight test
... to learn and iterate.” Described as a miniature Falcon 9 in design with its nine Rutherford engines, the Electron rocket, including its fuel tanks, is composed of carbon composite materials enabling a strong and lightweight flight structure. Not...
17 August 2020
Upgraded Electron rocket will be heading to Venus says Rocket Lab's CEO
... Peninsula. With a penchant for powerful engines, the New Zealand engineer, whose two-stage liquid-fuelled Electron rocket only reached orbit for the first time in January 2018, is now making fast progress with his...
08 December 2017
Second test launch window for trailblazing Electron rocket
... open a ten-day launch window from today, to carry out the company’s second test launch of the Electron rocket at its Launch Complex 1 site located on the tip of the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand. The complex is the...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... mission to the Moon for NASA in early 2021. Lifting off from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, Rocket Lab will use the Electron rocket and Photon Lunar spacecraft to launch NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and...
06 July 2020
Rocket Lab's 13th mission fails to reach orbit
... of losing their maiden satellite Faraday-1 during the launch on 4 July, 2020. The nanosat was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket yesterday evening (4th July) from New Zealand, but the launch vehicle failed in its late ascent...
26 February 2016
SpaceX's Garrett Katzenstein joins Rocket Lab
... Angeles, California, with a subsidiary office headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It is currently developing the 'Electron' rocket for high-frequency rocket launches with low mass payload to Earth orbit. In April 2015, the company announced the...
