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    Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand...
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    Rocket Lab Corporation is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Its Electron orbital rocket launches small satellites...
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    Electron is a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle built and operated by Rocket Lab. The rocket has been launched to orbit 66 times with 62 successes and...
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    and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. The facility officially...
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    bus based on Rocket Lab's Electron kick stage. It moves satellites into their appropriate orbits once boosted by rockets such as Electron. It is customizable...
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  • liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in Long Beach, California. The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron...
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  • An Electron first-stage booster is a reusable rocket stage used on the Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. It is made of a carbon composite developed...
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  • fictional Marvel Comics character Rocket Lab Electron, a small orbital rocket in use by Rocket Lab Teignmouth Electron, a trimaran entered in the 1968 Sunday...
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  • rocket engine designed and manufactured by Rocket Lab. A bipropellant is used for the propulsion of the third stage/kick stage of the Electron rocket...
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    various reusable spacecraft in development such as SpaceX Starship and Rocket Lab Electron; and (theoretical) spaceplanes.[citation needed] The categorization...
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    21, 2018, a Dove Pioneer CubeSat was part of the payload of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, the first orbital-entry craft launched from a privately owned...
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  • in 2024. In 2024, the company signed a deal with Rocket Lab for 10 launches of the Electron rocket for a synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation...
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    Kea Aerospace. He was a seed investor and co-director of Rocket Lab from 2007 to 2011. Rocket became the first New Zealander to reach space through a suborbital...
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    Peter Beck (category Rocket Lab)
    of Rocket Lab, an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Before founding Rocket Lab, Beck worked in various occupations and built rocket-powered...
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    on 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2019-04-29. "Rocket Lab Announces Reusability Plans For Electron Rocket". Rocket Lab. 6 August 2019. Archived from the original...
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  • partially reusable medium-lift two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab. Announced on 1 March 2021, the vehicle is designed to be capable of delivering...
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    Sciences Corporation's Pegasus (rocket) Rocket Lab's Electron (300 kg) Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne (500 kg) Astra's Rocket 3.3 (100 kg) Firefly Aerospace's...
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  • scheduled to take place in late 2024. Rocket Lab Electron Firefly Alpha "Flight 2 – Static Fire Update". "Even Rockets Can Be Simple". ABL Space Systems....
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    Liquid oxygen (category Rocket oxidizers)
    Launch System Northrop Grumman: Antares 300 (under development) Rocket Lab: Electron, Neutron (under development) SpaceX: Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship...
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  • (accessed July 22, 2014) "Rocket Lab Increases Electron Payload Capacity, Enabling Interplanetary Missions and Reusability". Rocket Lab. Retrieved October 26...
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    was originally planned to launch in January 2025 by an Electron launch vehicle from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand...
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  • were PocketQubes, which entered the atmosphere on May 2, 2022, by Rocket Lab Electron launched also from New Zealand, with the additional purpose to test...
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  • shareholding in Rocket Lab led to speculation that they would launch with the Rocket Lab Electron rocket, but since the two vehicles (Electron and Prime) use...
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    NASA recovered the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters (SRBs) via splashdown, as is done for Rocket Lab's Electron first stage. As the name suggests, the...
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  • Global-3 and BlackSky Global-4 satellites were launched aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket in August 2019, and BlackSky Global-7 and BlackSky Global-8 were...
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    Boeing X-37 spaceplane, SpaceX Dragon capsules and fairing halves, Rocket Lab Electron first stages, ISRO's Gaganyaan modules and the Chang'e 5 re-entry...
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    Minotaur I rocket. On July 13, 2022, NROL-162 was launched aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand. On September 24, 2022, NROL-91 (USA 338)...
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    Retrieved 28 October 2020. "Rocket Lab | Our Launch Sites". Rocket Lab. Retrieved 2018-12-30. "Rocket Lab conducts first Electron launch from American soil"...
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    Retrieved 8 December 2022. "Rocket Lab | Our Launch Sites". Rocket Lab. Retrieved 2018-12-30. "Rocket Lab conducts first Electron launch from American soil"...
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    Half-Life 2: Episode Two was launched into low Earth orbit on board a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. Gnonstop Gnomes, a mobile app for Android and iOS devices, lets...
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