Rocket Lab Signs Deal with Leidos to Launch Four HASTE Missions
12 September 2023 - 10:10PM
Business Wire
The four new missions follow on from the
success of Rocket Lab’s first HASTE launch for Leidos in June this
year
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the
Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems,
today announced it has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four
HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron)
missions.
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Rocket Lab's HASTE launch vehicle on the
pad at Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia. Image credit: Austin
Adams.
The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will lift off from
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional
Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Rocket Lab was
selected by Leidos to provide hypersonic test launch capabilities
with HASTE under the MACH-TB project. The project was awarded by
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane through the Strategic and
Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS)
Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle on behalf of the U.S.
Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC).
“Our first HASTE mission in June this year successfully
demonstrated HASTE’s ability to accelerate the cadence of
hypersonic flight testing for the nation. We’re proud to now follow
it up with a series of four additional missions for Leidos to
support hypersonic technology innovation and technology
maturation,” said Brian Rogers, Senior Director – Global Launch
Services.
Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital launch vehicle is derived from the
Company’s Electron rocket but has been modified to support
hypersonic payload deployment. By leveraging the heritage of Rocket
Lab’s low-cost Electron – the world’s most frequently launched
commercial small launch vehicle – HASTE offers true commercial
testing capability at a fraction of the cost of current full-scale
tests.
Rocket Lab launched the first HASTE mission on 17 June 2023 for
Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test
Bed (MACH-TB) program.
HASTE is operated under Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), the
Company’s wholly owned subsidiary created to serve the unique needs
of the U.S. defense and intelligence community and its allies.
For more information about HASTE, visit
rocketlabusa.com/launch/haste.
+ About Rocket Lab
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with
an established track record of mission success. We deliver reliable
launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft components, and
on-orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier and more
affordable to access space. Headquartered in Long Beach,
California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small
orbital launch vehicle, the Photon satellite platform and the
Company is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for
constellation deployment. Since its first orbital launch in January
2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second
most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 171
satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations,
enabling operations in national security, scientific research,
space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and
communications. Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been
selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as
the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket Lab has three
launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a
private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third
launch pad in Virginia. To learn more, visit
www.rocketlabusa.com.
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amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
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current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and
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unpredictable environment of space in which our products operate
which could adversely affect our launch vehicle and spacecraft;
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constellations which could materially increase the risk of
potential collision with space debris or another spacecraft and
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rapid technological development and decreasing costs; technological
change in our industry which we may not be able to keep up with or
which may render our services uncompetitive; average selling price
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to operate as intended either due to our error in design in
production or through no fault of our own; launch schedule
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