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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Launch Complex 1 on Māhia Peninsula Location Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand Coordinates 39°15′39″S 177°51′57″E / 39.26085°S 177.86586°E / -39.26085; 177.86586 (Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1) Time zone UTC+12 (NZST) • Summer (DST) UTC+13 (NZDT [a]) Operator Rocket Lab Total launches 53 Launch pad(s) 2 LC-1A launch history Status Active ...
Used for the first launch by Rocket Lab of their Atea 1 suborbital rocket. New Zealand: Mahia Peninsula: 2017– 42 [89] 13,000 kg [90] Lunar Launch site built and operated by Rocket Lab. First commercial spaceport in the southern hemisphere.
Māhia Peninsula (Māori: Te Māhia) [2] [3] is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the towns of Wairoa and Gisborne.. It includes Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1, located near Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of the Māhia Peninsula, for launching its Electron rockets.
The commercial mission is set to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on October 19, 2024, for a confidential customer. This marks the company’s fastest turnaround, achieving the launch in ...
As Rocket Lab argues, other companies' proposals will probably cost between $5.8 billion and $7.7 billion, and won't be ready to go until at least 2035, maybe as long as 2039.
The successful mission set a new record for launch cadence for the New Zealand rocket launcher -- 12 launches in just over 10 months, versus 10 launches in 12 months in 2023.
[74] [75] [72] Rocket Lab's launch business booked revenues of $13.5 million in 2018, $48 million in 2019 and an estimated $33 million in 2020. [72] Rocket Lab spent somewhere between $250 million to $300 million of the cash gained from going public to develop Neutron. [76] Rocket Lab aimed to launch Neutron by 2025. [77]
Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Servicing the commercial small satellite launch market, [ 16 ] it is the third most launched small-lift launch vehicle in history.