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Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab has recovered the first stage twice and is working towards the capability of reusing the booster. [18] The Flight 26 (F26) booster has featured the first helicopter catch recovery attempt. Rocket Lab has, however, abandoned the idea of catching Electron.
Launch of Electron in start of the "Birds of a Feather" mission. Electron is a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle built and operated by Rocket Lab. The rocket has been launched to orbit 55 times with 51 successes and four failures. A suborbital version of the rocket, HASTE, has been successfully launched three times.
Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket. The Rutherford engine uses pumps driven by battery-powered electric motors rather than a gas generator, expander, or preburner. [107] The engine is fabricated largely by 3D printing, using electron beam melting, [108] whereby layers of metal powder are melted in a high vacuum by an electron beam. [109]
Rocket Lab on Friday said it had launched its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand, the SpaceX rival's first flight since a mission failure in September. The previous mission ...
It will be Rocket Lab’s fourth mission from Launch Complex 2, a dedicated pad for the Electron rocket located at Virginia Spaceport Authority's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within the NASA ...
The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 a.m. on March 21, 2024, from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Rutherford is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab [8] and manufactured in Long Beach, California. [9] The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron. It uses LOX (liquid oxygen) and RP-1 (refined kerosene) as its propellants and is the first flight-ready engine to use the electric-pump-fed cycle.
Granted, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket doesn't have nearly the capability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 (or of ULA's Vulcan, or of Arianespace's Ariane 6, either) to launch heavy payloads. And Rocket Lab ...