Rocket Lab has been developing its Electron rocket design for over a decade and has been successfully launching payloads for ...

The engineering that Rocket Lab has done on Electron and the fact they made orbit on only their second ... capacity in this specific vehicle, the equation just doesn’t work as you scale up ...

Although the Schrödinger equation works fine when describing an electron in a small atom, where the electric force of only a handful of protons in the nucleus causes it to orbit at much less than ...

(Rocket Lab via YouTube) Rocket Lab’s two-stage Electron rocket successfully reached Earth orbit and deployed satellites for the first time today, raising hopes for far more ambitious missions t ...

The Electron rocket, which carries smaller payloads into orbit, can launch for a cool $4.9 million. This cheaper means of getting into orbit could alleviate the daunting financial burden smaller ...

sending six small satellites and an experimental drag sail into orbit from an oceanside launch pad in New Zealand. Liftoff of the Electron rocket came at 4:50 p.m. New Zealand time on Sunday (7:50 ...

The company will be investigating why and will aim for the Electron to get to orbit during its second test flight. “Reaching space in our first test puts us in an incredibly strong position to ...

For the first time, US space flight startup Rocket Lab has launched its Electron rocket into orbit. The rocket lifted off from the firm’s New Zealand launch facility on 21 January and put three ...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in New Zealand Jan. 20. This launch, the second for the small launch vehicle, was the first to successfully reach orbit.

Here’s how it works. A Rocket Lab Electron booster failed to reach orbit while attempting to launch seven small satellites for three different customers on Saturday (July 4). The two-stage ...