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Rocket Lab USA<\/strong>, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it will launch a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)<\/strong> from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia, during a launch window that opens March 20th, 2024.<\/p>\n The NROL-123 mission, called \u2018Live and Let Fly\u2019, will be Rocket Lab\u2019s first launch for the NRO from the United States after previously launching four NRO missions from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula. It will be Rocket Lab\u2019s 4thmission from Launch Complex 2, a dedicated pad for the Electron rocket located at Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. <\/p>\n \u201cElectron has been providing reliable access to orbit for the NRO since 2020 and we\u2019re honored to once again provide critical launch capability, this time from U.S. soil,\u201d said Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck<\/strong>. \u201cThe ability to reliably launch national security missions from pads in two countries is a unique one that offers a rare level of responsiveness and resiliency for small satellite launch. We\u2019re immensely proud to deliver this capability to the NRO, enabling them to maintain the nation\u2019s advantage in space.\u201d <\/p>\n The \u2018Live and Let Fly\u2019 launch service was acquired using NRO\u2019s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract. RASR enables the NRO to explore new opportunities for launching small satellites through a streamlined, commercial approach. NRO missions provide critical information to more than a half-million government users, including every member of the Intelligence Community, two dozen domestic agencies, the military, lawmakers, and decision-makers. <\/p>\n The launch will broadcast live at www.rocketlabusa.com\/live-stream. The mission is scheduled to be Rocket Lab\u2019s fourth launch of 2024 and 46th Electron launch overall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it will launch a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia, during a launch window that opens March 20th, 2024. The NROL-123 mission, called \u2018Live and Let Fly\u2019, will be Rocket Lab\u2019s first launch […]<\/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":[25,20],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640"}],"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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}