{"id":60141,"date":"2020-03-19T00:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-labs-electron-receives-nasa-certification\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T00:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:17:26","slug":"rocket-labs-electron-receives-nasa-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-labs-electron-receives-nasa-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron Receives NASA Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313080\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-313080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASA-small-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASA-small.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASA-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASA-small-1000x667.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA certifies Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch vehicle. Photo: Rocket Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>NASA<\/b> has certified <b>Rocket Lab<\/b>\u2019s Electron launch vehicle, which the company said provides confidence for NASA\u2019s low cost scientific, educational and technology demonstration small satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab said the certification milestone was achieved largely through the successful launch of the NASA ELaNa-19 mission in December 2018. The mission was the first time NASA CubeSats received a dedicated ride to orbit on a commercial launch vehicle. Rocket Lab said NASA also carried out an extensive assessment of Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron production facilities and processes in 2019. NASA is now considering Rocket Lab for Category 2 Certification, a classification that enables a launch provider to fly higher value payloads.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab Founder and CEO Peter Beck said the certification is a significant achievement for the company. \u201cWe have a strong partnership with NASA that was established through the ELaNa-19 launch and continues today with the upcoming CAPSTONE mission that will see our Electron launch vehicle and Photon spacecraft deliver a NASA satellite to lunar orbit next year. We\u2019re honored to be selected by NASA to launch these important pathfinding missions that pave the way for future exploration,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA certifies Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch vehicle. Photo: Rocket Lab NASA has certified Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch vehicle, which the company said provides confidence for NASA\u2019s low cost scientific, educational and technology demonstration small satellites. Rocket Lab said the certification milestone was achieved largely through the successful launch of the NASA ELaNa-19 mission in December [&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":[],"class_list":["post-60141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60141"}],"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=60141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}