Rocket Lab stories
Callaghan Innovation cheers its clients, including Rocket Lab, who triumphed at the NZ Innovation Awards, reflecting rich Kiwi ingenuity and ambition.
Rocketlab launched their first rocket into space last month and it's viewed around the world as a very serious player in the rocket business.
The Awards are an opportunity to recognise the very best among New Zealand's community of Kiwi innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The launch will carry research and development payloads from NASA and educational institutions that will conduct a variety of new, on-orbit science.
Rocket Lab sets a 14-day window for its 1st commercial launch, 'It's Business Time', breaking new ground in space.
The Humanity Star will orbit the Earth for approximately 9 months before its orbit starts to decay and it's pulled back into Earth's gravity.
Rocket Lab currently has five Electron vehicles in production, with the next launch expected to take place in early 2018.
Still Testing is the second of three test launches planned from Launch Complex 1 ahead of commercial operations.
Rocket Lab's 'Still Testing' set to propel Planet and Spire satellites, boosting Earth observation and analytics capabilities.
The issue has been resolved and Rocket Lab has authorised the production of four additional launch vehicles as it prepares for commercial operations.
Callaghan Innovation's 2015-2016 Annual Report is scheduled for Parliament, and it puts forward some of the most grand successes for Kiwi innovation.
Airways NZ approves regular rocket launches from Rocket Lab, including creating 'special use airspace' for their electron rocket.
A man of the universe with star credibility to match, when Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck says there's space in space, he means it.
Kiwi firm Rocket Lab unveils Electron, aiming to slash costs of launching small satellites to under USD $5 million and cutting lead times to weeks.
