Tag: June 21

Rocket Lab Marks Milestone with 50th Electron Rocket Launch

Spaceflight Now reports, “Rocket Lab successfully reached a milestone that few commercial rockets achieved and at a pace that outperformed its competition. The company launched its 50th Electron rocket to date just seven years after the vehicle’s debut in May 2017 … Onboard the rocket were five satellites on behalf of France-based internet of things company, Kinéis … All five on this flight were successfully deployed.”
Full Story (Spaceflight Now)

 

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RocketLab 50th Electron Launch
(The Launch Pad; YouTube)

South Korea Launches First Homegrown Space Rocket

The AP reports that South Korea “successfully launched its first homegrown space rocket on Tuesday, officials said, a triumph that boosted the country’s growing space ambitions but also proved it has key technologies to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea.” The Nuri rocket “succeeded in releasing and placing its functioning ‘performance verification’ satellite at an altitude of 700 kilometers (435 miles) after its liftoff from South Korea’s space launch center at 4 p.m.”
Full Story (AP)
 
 
 

 

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Launch of South Korea’s Nuri rocket, June 21, 2022
(Korea Now via YouTube)