New launch pad, subcontract for Rocket Lab

New launch pad, subcontract for Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab's new launch pad B (foreground) at Mahia. (Image: Rocket Lab)
Henry Burrell
Rocket Lab has added a second launch pad to its launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia peninsula for missions involving its Electron rocket.The company said it had doubled its launch capacity by adding the new pad, Pad B, and would aim to launch a mission for the Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective on March 1.It means Rocket Lab now has two sites in NZ and one in Wallops, Virginia, from which to launch Electron missions, though the Wallops site is not yet fully operational. On Friday morning the company also announced it had won a...

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