Next Rocket Lab launch: satellite for U.S. Missile Defense, moon prep

February 10, 2021

NZ Herald:

 

Rocket Lab’s next launch will carry another military payload, and see further refinement of the ‘Photon’ platform that will help ferry a NASA satellite to the moon later this year.

The payload for the “They Go Up So Fast” mission scheduled for a mid-March launch from Mahia, will include a “technology demonstrator for the US Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) through launch integration and program management services provider, TriSept,” Rocket Lab said in a statement (see full manifest foot of story)…

 

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