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Rocket Lab scores $190 million launch deal to test hypersonic tech for US military
Rocket Lab has signed its biggest launch contract to date, raking in $190 million from the U.S. Department of Defense. The deal is for a total of 20 flights of Rocket Lab's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) launch vehicle, a suborbital variant of the company's Electron rocket. The contract secures HASTE as the primary test vehicle for a joint program between the DoD and Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.
Watch Rocket Lab launch mystery mission early on Nov. 5
The mission, for a "confidential commercial customer," is set to lift off atop an Electron vehicle from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Tuesday at 5:30 a.m. EST (0930 GMT). Rocket Lab will webcast the launch live, beginning 30 minutes before liftoff.
Electron launches second set of Kinéis satellites
An Electron launched a second set of satellites for French startup Kinéis Sept. 20, putting that company on track to begin offering Internet of Things services. The Electron lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 7:01 p.m. Eastern. The five satellites on board were deployed into sun-synchronous orbits at an altitude of 643 kilometers a little more than an hour later.