{"id":17853,"date":"2019-12-18T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-begins-construction-of-a-second-launch-pad-at-its-new-zealand-complex\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:44:21","slug":"rocket-lab-begins-construction-of-a-second-launch-pad-at-its-new-zealand-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-begins-construction-of-a-second-launch-pad-at-its-new-zealand-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab begins construction of a second launch pad at its New Zealand complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_538418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538418\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-538418\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191218-rocketlab-630x383.png\" alt=\"Launch Pad 1-B\" width=\"630\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191218-rocketlab-630x383.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191218-rocketlab-1260x767.png 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191218-rocketlab-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191218-rocketlab.png 1494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-538418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows Rocket Lab\u2019s Pad 1-B at the upper corner of its Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. (Rocket Lab Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just days after officially opening its Virginia launch pad, Rocket Lab announced today that it has started construction of yet another pad at its original New Zealand home base.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new pad, known as Launch Complex 1 Pad B, is due for completion in late 2020. Rocket Lab says LC-1B will support increased launch frequency; enable back-to-back missions within days; and ensure that a pad is always ready to support rapid call-up launch. The existing pad at New Zealand\u2019s Launch Complex 1 will be LC-1A.<\/li>\n<li>Launch Complex 1 is licensed for up to 120 liftoffs per year \u2014 a cadence that requires having two pads. Launch Complex 2, on Virginia\u2019s Wallops Island, is expected to handle up to 12 launches per year, beginning in early 2020 with an Air Force satellite mission.<\/li>\n<li>Like SpaceX, California-based Rocket Lab is considered a \u201cspace unicorn\u201d with a valuation in excess of $1 billion. Unlike SpaceX, the company concentrates on the low end of the launch market, focusing on payloads in the range of 330 to 500 pounds. Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket is one of the favored vehicles for small-satellite launches arranged through Seattle-based Spaceflight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows Rocket Lab\u2019s Pad 1-B at the upper corner of its Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. (Rocket Lab Illustration) Just days after officially opening its Virginia launch pad, Rocket Lab announced today that it has started construction of yet another pad at its original New Zealand home base. The new pad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1596,544],"class_list":["post-17853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-rocket-lab"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}