{"id":59502,"date":"2020-06-18T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nro-awards-rocket-lab-launch-contract-for-back-to-back-missions\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:13:44","slug":"nro-awards-rocket-lab-launch-contract-for-back-to-back-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nro-awards-rocket-lab-launch-contract-for-back-to-back-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"NRO Awards Rocket Lab Launch Contract for Back-to-Back Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> signed a launch agreement with the <strong>U.S. National Reconnaissance Office<\/strong> (NRO) for two back-to-back dedicated small satellite missions aboard an Electron launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The missions were awarded through the NRO\u2019s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract, an initiative that enables the agency to explore new opportunities for launching small satellites through a streamlined, commercial approach. The RASR-3 and RASR-4 missions are scheduled for launch within weeks of each other in late spring 2021 from two separate pads at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>By launching the missions separately from pads LC-1A and LC-1B, Rocket Lab said it will be able to eliminate the pad recycle time typically required when launching from a single pad, and this unique ability enables Rocket Lab to launch missions days or even hours apart. Construction of Launch Complex 1 Pad B will be complete by the end of this year. Pad LC-1B is Rocket Lab\u2019s third launch pad, joining the existing pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, as well as the new pad at Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaintaining resilient space architecture and having the ability to deploy assets exactly when and where they\u2019re needed is paramount for U.S. national security in these dynamic times,\u201d said Peter Beck, Rocket Lab founder and CEO. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to continue enabling that flexible, responsive space access and once again deliver a proven launch solution for the NRO and the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab signed a launch agreement with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for two back-to-back dedicated small satellite missions aboard an Electron launch vehicle. The missions were awarded through the NRO\u2019s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract, an initiative that enables the agency to explore new opportunities for launching small satellites through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59503,"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-59502","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\/59502"}],"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=59502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}