![]() Mike Wall is the author of " Out There " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. ET to reflect the launch delay due to bad weather. But there will be no such recovery attempt on "Stronger Together," according to the mission press kit.Įditor's note: This story, originally posted at 6 a.m. Rocket Lab has been working to make the expendable Electron's first stage reusable the company has recovered boosters on several previous missions, even plucking a falling rocket out of the sky with a helicopter on one occasion. ![]() LC-2 "is designed to serve the responsive space needs of commercial, civil, defense, and national security customers, supporting up to 12 missions per year," Rocket Lab wrote in a statement. 24 of this year.īut "Virginia Is for Launch Lovers" won't be an outlier for long: The Wallops site, Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), will host liftoffs on a regular basis going forward. The lone outlier, a flight named "Virginia Is for Launch Lovers," lifted off from Wallops on Jan. Rocket Lab has launched 33 orbital missions with the two-stage Electron to date, all but one of them from its Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Rocket Lab plans to snag falling boosters with a helicopter and refly them Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling booster with a helicopter (video) Rocket Lab: Private spaceflight company for small satellites Wallops supports remote launch locations with mobile range assets to be able to support missions wherever the science is needed. These spacecraft allow "Capella Space to deliver the highest quality, highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available with the fastest order-to-delivery time, empowering organizations across the public and private sector to make informed, accurate decisions," Rocket Lab representatives wrote in the press kit. Wallops goes to where the science is Sounding rockets are launched worldwide from both permanent and remote launch ranges. The satellites will join Capella Space's SAR constellation, which provides customers with detailed imagery of Earth both day and night, in all weather conditions. If all goes according to plan, the two spacecraft will be deployed into a circular orbit 370 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth about 57.5 minutes after liftoff, according to the mission press kit. The 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron is carrying two synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites for San Francisco-based company Capella Space on the "Stronger Together" mission. ![]() The launch, weather permitting, may be visible those along the East Coast. Our visitor center will not be open for this mission. Rocket Lab's next launch from Wallops is scheduled for this Saturday, March 11, with a window of 6-8 p.m. ![]()
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