{"id":49875,"date":"2025-01-10T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-expands-rocket-labs-vadr-contract-to-include-neutron-rocket\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:34:04","slug":"nasa-expands-rocket-labs-vadr-contract-to-include-neutron-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-expands-rocket-labs-vadr-contract-to-include-neutron-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Expands Rocket Lab\u2019s VADR Contract to Include Neutron Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>NASA <\/b>has added Neutron launch services to <b>Rocket Lab\u2019s<\/b> existing Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract, Rocket Lab announced Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab has been eligible for NASA VADR launch contracts since 2022 and the Electron vehicle has provided four launches between the VADR PREFIRE and VADR TROPICS missions. This addition makes Neutron eligible for future awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Neutron rocket plans to meet the demand for medium-lift launch capabilities in government and commercial sectors including constellation deployment, national security operations and scientific exploration. Neutron is scheduled for its debut launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 in Virginia from mid-2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Beck, Rocket Lab\u2019s founder and CEO said: \u201cNeutron brings choice and value to the launch industry and is the ideal rocket to support NASA\u2019s goals with VADR to provide new opportunities for science and technology payloads through commercial best practice.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Rocket Lab recently announced its first launch deal for Neutron, a multi-launch agreement with an unnamed commercial satellite constellation operator. Neutron is also eligible to compete for missions under the U.S. Space Force\u2019s OSP-4 program. Rocket Lab also says Neutron is \u201cideally placed\u201d to be on-ramped into the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Lane 1 program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has added Neutron launch services to Rocket Lab\u2019s existing Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract, Rocket Lab announced Jan. 9. Rocket Lab has been eligible for NASA VADR launch contracts since 2022 and the Electron vehicle has provided four launches between the VADR PREFIRE and VADR TROPICS missions. This addition makes Neutron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47020,"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":[],"class_list":["post-49875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49875"}],"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=49875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}