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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 52 Launch pad(s) 2 LC-1A launch history Status Active ...
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.
Rocket Lab was founded in New Zealand in 2006. [21] By 2009, [ 22 ] the successful launch of Ātea-1 [ 22 ] made the organization the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space . [ 21 ]
Rocket Lab said in its statement about the delay that it made this decision in light of the New Zealand government's March 23 announcement that it would be escalating its COVID-19 response to ...
Rocket Lab has launched its 18th mission, and the first of 2021, as of 8:26 PM NZT (2:30 AM EST). The "Another One Leaves The Crust" mission took off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the ...
New Zealand’s Rocket Lab has been preparing for its sixth mission of the year. The prospective launch was slated to take off from Rocket Lab’s Complex 1 site on the Mahia Peninsula.
The New Zealand Space Agency was formed in April 2016 under the country's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.The aim of the agency is to promote the development of a space industry in New Zealand and to reap its economic benefits, [1] [2] and to regulate the country's growing commercial space industry.
Around 2013, Rocket Lab moved its registration from New Zealand to the United States, and opened headquarters in Huntington Beach, California. [2] The company then developed and first launched the Electron rocket unsuccessfully in May 2017. [8] The rocket's first successful launch happened in January 2018, deploying two CubeSats and the ...