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U.S. Space Force Awards Rocket Lab Launch Contract for Space Test Program (STP)-S30

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) today announced it has been awarded a $14.49 million task order by the U.S. Space Force ...
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Rocket Lab breaks launch record with historic DiskSat mission

Rocket Lab has set a new personal best for annual launch cadence, using its latest Electron flight to loft a quartet of experimental DiskSat spacecraft for the U.S. military and NASA. The mission, ...
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A Minotaur IV launch of Space Test Program’s S29A mission scheduled for early Tuesday

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Minotaur IV rocket launch of the Space Test Program S29A mission has been scheduled from Vandenberg Space Force Base's Space Launch Complex 8 on Tuesday, ...
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Blue Origin’s uncrewed moon lander just survived extreme space testing on Earth — clearing the way for lunar hardware that will actually carry astronauts

Inside a 55-foot-tall vacuum chamber at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, engineers spent weeks subjecting Blue Origin’s uncrewed lunar lander to the kind of punishment only deep space can deliver: ...
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Space Force taps K2 satellites to test laser communications for missile-defense

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force plans to use satellites built by K2 Space to test a critical but unresolved piece of future missile-defense systems: how to move large volumes of data quickly between ...