{"id":50104,"date":"2024-11-26T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-2-missions-from-2-continents-in-less-than-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:09:06","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-2-missions-from-2-continents-in-less-than-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-2-missions-from-2-continents-in-less-than-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Launches 2 Missions from 2 Continents in Less Than 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><em>Note \u2014 This story was updated on Dec. 9 with more information on the suborbital mission<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Rocket Lab <\/b>hit the milestone of launching two missions from two continents in less than 24 hours between Sunday and Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The milestone kicked off with a mission from Launch Complex 2 at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sunday at 1 a.m. EST. Then, about 22 hours later, Rocket Lab followed it up with a launch from New Zealand delivering five satellites to orbit for the Kin\u00e9is IoT constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was Rocket Lab\u2019s fastest turnaround between launches and broke the company\u2019s record for the number of Electron launches in one year. Rocket Lab set a new record of 12 launches earlier this month, and has now completed 14 Electron launches for this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo successful launches less than 24 hours apart from pads in different hemispheres. That\u2019s unprecedented capability in the small launch market and one we\u2019re immensely proud to deliver at Rocket Lab,\u201d CEO Peter Beck commented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After initially not sharing specifics of the mission from Wallops Flight Facility, Rocket Lab confirmed on Dec. 9 that it was a suborbital mission that tested hypersonic technology for the Department of Defense. The mission provided hypersonic test launch capabilities under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) project, which aims to increase hypersonic flight testing for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHypersonic technology testing is a critical need for the nation and one that we\u2019re proud to be serving with our test launches. Again, we broke new ground with this launch, and our ability to deliver successful tests demonstrates our commitment to working with our government and industry partners in pushing the boundaries of hypersonic innovation,\u201d Rocket Lab\u2019s Vice President Global Launch Services, Brian Rogers commented on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand mission, dubbed \u2018Ice AIS Baby,\u2019 was the third of five missions Rocket Lab is scheduled to deliver for French constellation operator Kin\u00e9is. AIS is a reference to the automatic identification system (AIS) data the satellites will collect. Kin\u00e9is confirmed post-launch the mission was successful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note \u2014 This story was updated on Dec. 9 with more information on the suborbital mission Rocket Lab hit the milestone of launching two missions from two continents in less than 24 hours between Sunday and Monday.&nbsp; The milestone kicked off with a mission from Launch Complex 2 at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50105,"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-50104","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\/50104"}],"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=50104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}