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Rocket Lab to Perform First Stage Retrieval Attempt in Upcoming Mission; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab has announced that it will try to recover its Electron rocket's first stage using a parachute system during its next mission that is slated for launch in mid-November.
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Spaceflight to Support More HawkEye 360 Satellite Launches
Spaceflight has agreed to help HawkEye 360 launch three more clusters of the latter's radio frequency mapping satellite constellation. Spaceflight said Wednesday it will perform mission management, engineering and capacity support under a multiple launch services agreement with HawkEye 360.
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Rocket Lab Deploys In-House Built ‘First Light’ Satellite to Orbit; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab's first in-house built satellite launched into orbit Monday as part of its 14th Electron mission that took off from a launch complex in New Zealand and fielded a microsatellite for Capella Space.
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Iridium Taps Relativity Space for Ground Spare Satellite Launches; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium Communications has awarded Relativity Space a contract to perform up to six on-demand launches to deliver ground spare satellites to low-Earth orbit.
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Peraton’s Dean Bellamy: Congress Should Address Space Traffic Management
Dean Bellamy, senior director of space strategies and development at Peraton, told Politico in an interview published Friday he believes Congress needs to initiate action to better manage space traffic as more companies launch satellites into orbit.
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Rocket Lab Gets NASA Certification for Launch Vehicle; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab has received Category 1 certification from NASA for its Electron launch vehicle. The certification was awarded after Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle delivered 13 NASA CubeSats to orbit in December 2018 as part of the ELaNa-19 mission and following the completion of a review of the company's rocket production processes and facilities in 2019, the company said Tuesday.
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Rocket Lab to Launch NASA, NRO, Australian Payloads; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab will help two U.S. federal agencies and an Australian academia-based team launch and deploy small satellite payloads.
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SpaceX Targets April Launch for Third Air Force GPS III Satellite
SpaceX“™s Falcon 9 rocket is set to take off by April 29 to send into orbit the U.S. Air Force“™s third GPS III satellite, Teslarati reported Sunday.
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Capella Space Plans Launch of Updated “˜Sequoia' Imaging Satellite in March
Capella Space has updated the design of its Sequoia radar satellite ahead of plans to establish an operational constellation over the next two years, Forbes magazine reported Friday.
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Lockheed’s Rick Ambrose on Space Market, Manned Lunar Mission
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space business and a four-time Wash100 award recipient, told Yahoo Finance in a video posted Tuesday about the manned mission to the moon by 2024.