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Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) missions.<\/p>\n
The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility. Rocket Lab was selected by Leidos to provide hypersonic test launch capabilities with HASTE under the MACH-TB project. The project was awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC).<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first HASTE mission in June this year successfully demonstrated HASTE\u2019s ability to accelerate the cadence of hypersonic flight testing for the nation. We\u2019re proud to now follow it up with a series of four additional missions for Leidos to support hypersonic technology innovation and technology maturation,\u201d said Brian Rogers, Senior Director \u2013 Global Launch Services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Rocket Lab\u2019s HASTE suborbital launch vehicle is derived from the Company\u2019s Electron rocket but has been modified to support hypersonic payload deployment. By leveraging the heritage of Rocket Lab\u2019s low-cost Electron \u2013 the world\u2019s most frequently launched commercial small launch vehicle \u2013 HASTE offers true commercial testing capability at a fraction of the cost of current full-scale tests.<\/p>\n Rocket Lab launched the first HASTE mission on 17 June 2023 for Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program.<\/p>\n HASTE is operated under Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), the Company\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary created to serve the unique needs of the U.S. defense and intelligence community and its allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) missions. The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA\u2019s […]<\/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":[26,25,54,20],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-platforms","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199"}],"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=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}