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 "It's been nothing short of a Herculean effort to get us to this point, which I view as a turning point in launch range operation, not just at Wallops, but across the United States," Pierce told reporters ahead of Rocket Lab's first launch attempt last month. Those issues were resolved in mid-December 2022, with only bad weather preventing a launch attempt on Dec. Space Force and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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NASA Wallops Flight Facility director David Pierce said the agency found numerous errors in the software that required correction and additional testing by NASA, the U.S. The system is automated safety software designed to help rockets self-terminate if they veer off course during flight. Rocket Lab hoped to begin launches from Wallops in 2020, but delays with a NASA-developed autonomous flight termination system that was required for Electron launches from the range added years of delay. commercial, military and government flights, he added. The new pad will offer additional flexibility for U.S. soil, and we're also proud of the opportunities it creates for the local community by creating highly skilled jobs and bringing high-tech manufacturing to the Eastern Shore," Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said in a statement before launch. "We're incredibly excited about the capability we're bringing to Virginia by delivering responsive launch for our customers from U.S. Rocket Lab finished building its pad at the U.S. The Virginia launch site is part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for commercial launches out of Wallops. Tuesday's launch, called "Virginia Is for Launch Lovers" (a play on the state's tourism motto "Virginia Is for Lovers"), was years in the making for Rocket Lab, which until now has launched Electron missions only from its two pads on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island. The mission, called "Virginia Is for Launch Lovers," was Rocket Lab's first-ever liftoff from U.S. 24, 2023 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches three satellites for the company HawkEye 360 on Jan.
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