Rocket Lab planlægger anden test af deres Electron raket

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Rocket Lab Still Testing launch window announced

Rocket Lab meddeler, at man fra fredag den 8. december vil åbne et 10 dage langt opsendelsesvindue til den anden testopsendelse af selskabets Electron raket. Testopsendelsen, med nevnet Still Testing, vil finde sted fra Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 på halvøen Māhia, New Zealand.

Still Testing bliver den første Rocket Lab opsendelse med live streaming til offentligheden. En live video stream vil være tilgængelig på hjemmesiden http://www.rocketlabusa.com ca. 12 minutter før hvert opsendelsesforsøg.

 

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Rocket Lab poised to provide dedicated launcher for CubeSat science

Atop an emerald green hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, at the tip of New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula, sits a diminutive launch pad, built and operated by Rocket Lab, a Los Angeles, California–based aerospace company. On 8 December, a 10-day launch window will open for the second flight of the Electron, one of the world’s first rockets specifically designed to carry small satellites to orbit—a capability that intrigues many scientists.

“These small payload–dedicated launch capabilities are so important,” says aeronautical engineer Kerri Cahoy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. “They’ll let us deploy dozens to hundreds of CubeSats and provide data to weather forecasters, people monitoring agriculture, surveillance—you name it.”

 

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