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RocketLab's 'Electron' Marks First Orbital-Class Launch From Private_Pad
At popularmechanics.com - Rocket Lab's 'Electron' Marks First Orbital-Class Launch From a Private Pad - May 25, 2017
The introduction:
Rocket Lab, a California-based spaceflight company with its roots in New Zealand, just launched its two-stage Electron rocket for the first time. The small launch vehicle successfully lifted off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand at 12:20 a.m. ET on Thursday May 25—4:20 p.m. New Zealand time. The successful liftoff marks the first time an orbital-class rocket has been launched from a private launch facility.
The video above has had 49,000+ views in the 7 days since it was published. People are watching.
Rocket Lab Launches "Orbital Class" Rocket From a Private Launch Pad - Monday, May 29, 2017
The Commercial Space Blog - Focused on Money Making Activities, High Above the Sky...
The concluding segment:
The Electron is a two-stage, carbon-composite launch vehicle designed to deliver payloads of 150 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit; the target range for the growing small satellite market. The rocket is powered by in-house built Rutherford engines (after the New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford) that burn a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene.
The Rutherford engine incorporates new innovations to minimize weight and cost. These include fuel pumps powered by battery-fed electric motors rather than a gas generator, expander, or preburner. In addition, the engine is fabricated mostly via 3D printing, using electron beam melting, in which layers of metal powder are melted in a high vacuum by an electron beam rather than a laser. When the Electron goes into full production, Rocket Lab expects a launch rate of over 50 times a year.
The Electron’s projected cost is less than $5Mln USD ($6.7Mln CDN) per launch.
With the launch of the Electron, New Zealand now joins Earth’s space-faring nations. Rocket Lab’s success proves the wisdom of the NewSpace business model and provides a lesson for other nations, including our own.
At graphicnews.com - New Zealand hosts first private space launch - 05/25/2017
U.S. company Rocket Lab has launched a rocket from New Zealand, the world’s first from a private facility, showing it is possible to provide frequent, affordable launch opportunities to low Earth orbit.
At popularmechanics.com - Rocket Lab's 'Electron' Marks First Orbital-Class Launch From a Private Pad - May 25, 2017
The introduction:
Rocket Lab, a California-based spaceflight company with its roots in New Zealand, just launched its two-stage Electron rocket for the first time. The small launch vehicle successfully lifted off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand at 12:20 a.m. ET on Thursday May 25—4:20 p.m. New Zealand time. The successful liftoff marks the first time an orbital-class rocket has been launched from a private launch facility.
The video above has had 49,000+ views in the 7 days since it was published. People are watching.
Rocket Lab Launches "Orbital Class" Rocket From a Private Launch Pad - Monday, May 29, 2017
The Commercial Space Blog - Focused on Money Making Activities, High Above the Sky...
The concluding segment:
The Electron is a two-stage, carbon-composite launch vehicle designed to deliver payloads of 150 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit; the target range for the growing small satellite market. The rocket is powered by in-house built Rutherford engines (after the New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford) that burn a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene.
The Rutherford engine incorporates new innovations to minimize weight and cost. These include fuel pumps powered by battery-fed electric motors rather than a gas generator, expander, or preburner. In addition, the engine is fabricated mostly via 3D printing, using electron beam melting, in which layers of metal powder are melted in a high vacuum by an electron beam rather than a laser. When the Electron goes into full production, Rocket Lab expects a launch rate of over 50 times a year.
The Electron’s projected cost is less than $5Mln USD ($6.7Mln CDN) per launch.
With the launch of the Electron, New Zealand now joins Earth’s space-faring nations. Rocket Lab’s success proves the wisdom of the NewSpace business model and provides a lesson for other nations, including our own.
At graphicnews.com - New Zealand hosts first private space launch - 05/25/2017
U.S. company Rocket Lab has launched a rocket from New Zealand, the world’s first from a private facility, showing it is possible to provide frequent, affordable launch opportunities to low Earth orbit.
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