![]() Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched U.S. Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle, the Photon satellite platform and the Company is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for constellation deployment. We deliver reliable launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft components, and on-orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier and more affordable to access space. It brings the total number of satellites launched to orbit by Rocket Lab to 161.įollow Rocket Lab on Twitter for real-time updates about the next TROPICS launch.įounded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with an established track record of mission success. ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ was Rocket Lab’s fourth mission for 2023 and the Company’s 36 th Electron mission overall. We look forward to the entire constellation being on-orbit to realize the benefits for the agency, as well as for our colleagues around the world,” said Ben Kim, TROPICS program executive for NASA’s Earth Science Division. “We are extremely proud of all our partners, including MIT Lincoln Labs, Blue Canyon Technologies, KSAT, and Rocket Lab for successfully executing on this first launch. “We’re grateful to the NASA team for entrusting us with such a critical mission and we look forward to completing the constellation with the second Electron launch in the coming days.” “The TROPICS constellation has the real potential to save lives by providing more timely data about storm intensity and providing advance warning to those in storm paths, so it’s an immense privilege to have deployed these spacecraft to their precise orbits before the upcoming storm season,” said Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck. With the first batch of TROPICS CubeSats now in orbit, the second launch, called ‘Coming to a Storm Near You,’ is expected to launch on another Electron rocket in approximately two weeks from Launch Complex 1. All four TROPICS satellites need to be deployed into their operational orbit within a 60-day period, a mission requirement made possible with small dedicated launch. This high revisit rate aims to help scientists better understand the processes that effect these high-impact storms, ultimately leading to improved modeling and prediction to help protect lives and livelihoods. These unique orbits over Earth’s tropics allow the satellites to travel over any given storm about once an hour compared with current weather tracking satellites that have a timing of about once every six hours. Each pair of CubeSats must be launched to two specific orbital planes that are equally spaced 180 degrees opposite to maximize the temporal resolution. The constellation, which is part of NASA’s Earth System Science Pathfinder Program, requires launch to 550 kilometers altitude and inclination of about 30 degrees. TROPICS will monitor the formation and evolution of tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, and will provide rapidly updating observations of storm intensity. The ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ launch lifted-off on May 8 at 13:00 NZST (01:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula deploying two of the four CubeSats that comprise the TROPICS constellation (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats). (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today successfully completed the first of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of tropical cyclone monitoring satellites for NASA. Conditions may apply.MAHIA, New Zealand-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Rocket Lab USA, Inc. of Banking – License #21430 RI: Licensed Lender WA: Consumer Loan Company License CL-3030. OH: MB 850076 OR: License #ML-1387 PA: Licensed by the Dept. NY: Licensed Mortgage Banker – NYS Banking Dept. of Banking and Consumer Finance NH: Licensed by the NH Banking Dept., #6743MB NV: License #626 NJ: New Jersey – Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48226, (888) 474-0404, Licensed by the N.J. ![]() of Financial and Professional Regulation KS: Licensed Mortgage Company MC.0025309 MA: Mortgage Lender License #ML 3030 ME: Supervised Lender License MN: Not an offer for a rate lock agreement MS: Licensed by the MS Dept. ![]() of Business Oversight, under the CA Residential Mortgage Lending Act and Finance Lenders Law CO: Regulated by the Division of Real Estate GA: Residential Mortgage Licensee #11704 IL: Residential Mortgage Licensee #4127 – Dept. 2000, Phoenix, AZ 85004, Mortgage Banker License #BK-0902939 CA: Licensed by Dept.
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