{"id":9252,"date":"2022-08-09T00:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-second-national-security-mission-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:26:38","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-second-national-security-mission-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-launches-second-national-security-mission-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Launches Second National Security Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/20220808_120005_0000_637955371267112110.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Rocket Lab Launches Second National Security Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/20220808_120005_0000_637955371267112110.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/20220808_120005_0000_637955371267112110.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, has successfully launched its second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The NROL-199 \u201cAntipodean Adventure\u201d mission launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at 05:00 UTC on August 4, 2022, carrying a payload designed, built, and operated by the NRO in partnership with the Australian Department of Defence. This mission follows the successful delivery to the orbit of its predecessor NROL-162&nbsp;three weeks earlier, launched on the \u201cWise One Looks Ahead\u201d mission on July 13, 2022. These national security missions, combined with the successful launch of the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA on June 28, 2022, make up a record launch cadence for the company of three successful electron launches in just over five weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The turnaround between NROL-162 and today\u2019s NROL-199 launch is the shortest time between national security missions by a small launch provider, setting a new standard in responsive space. This streamlined approach to launch is backed by Rocket Lab\u2019s two launch pads at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, the company\u2019s private launch site, which can support up to 120 launches per year. With three launch pads across sites in New Zealand and the United States; dedicated range and mission control centers; and a highly experienced team, Rocket Lab is uniquely positioned to deliver responsive space capability to the national security community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Rocket Lab founder and CEO,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Peter Beck<\/strong><strong>, says<\/strong>: <em>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to be delivering responsive space capability to the national security community and we\u2019re grateful to the NRO for entrusting us with their missions once again.&#8221; Our team is focused on relentless execution for our customers, and delivering three successful Electron missions in just over five weeks is testament to this. That the team delivered two flawless back-to-back national security missions only days after our most complex mission yet, the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA, is phenomenal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NROL-199 and NROL-162 are the latest pair of missions awarded to Rocket Lab by the NRO under the Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract, which enables the NRO to launch small satellites through a streamlined, commercial approach. NROL-151 (RASR-1) was successfully deployed to space on a dedicated Electron launch in early 2020, followed by RASR-2 on another Electron in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ij94xGiXB5Q?&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"fr-draggable\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, has successfully launched its second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-199 \u201cAntipodean Adventure\u201d mission launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at 05:00 UTC on August 4, 2022, [&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":[20],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252"}],"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=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}