Rocket Lab says the Electron launcher and its three commercial satellite payloads are ready for blastoff. Time to fly, this time from the northern hemisphere.” “Huge thanks to NASA Wallops and the FAA. “The final licensing paperwork for launch is complete and we are 100% go for launch tomorrow,” tweeted Peter Beck, Rocket Lab’s founder and CEO, on Saturday evening. The company’s Electron rocket has flown 32 times since 2017 from a privately-owned spaceport on the North Island of New Zealand, delivering 152 satellites to orbit on 29 successful missions. Rocket Lab has its corporate headquarters in Southern California, and operates two rocket factories in California and in New Zealand. company building a satellite constellation to detect and locate the source of terrestrial radio signals. Rocket Lab and NASA range teams will monitor high-altitude winds during Sunday’s countdown to ensure conditions in the upper atmosphere will permit the Electron rocket to safely climb into space with three small satellites for HawkEye 360, a U.S. Forecasters at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility predict a 90% chance of favorable weather for launch Sunday, with only a slight concern for thick clouds. EST (2300 GMT), for liftoff of Rocket Lab’s Electron booster from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. There is a two-hour launch window Sunday, opening at 6 p.m. Rocket Lab said Saturday that the company received final approval from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch their first mission from the United States on Sunday, clearing final regulatory and technical hurdles with a new autonomous range safety destruct unit that delayed the launch more than two years. Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher on the pad at Wallops Island, Virginia.
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