An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s launch pad in New Zealand on Tuesday, hitting a top speed of 16,629 miles per hour as it left Earth’s atmosphere. Carrying NASA’s Cislunar ...

three-pound CubeSats to spacecraft the size of a washing machine. The two-stage Electron rocket can lift up to 500 pounds to low Earth orbit. Until now, smallsats have had to piggyback on rockets ...

With its flagship rocket, the Electron, the space company has emerged as a top player in the industry and has the second-most-utilized orbital rocket in the U.S. Electron's smaller size makes it ...

Though it's only the size of a microwave oven ... After a 32-minute delay due to technical difficulties, the Electron rocket lifted off with the ACS3 and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science ...

A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off Sept ... it didn’t really make sense to be as small,” he said, increasing the size of the satellites to improve their performance. “The quality of the ...

The first two CubeSats lifted off from Māhia, New Zealand, aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket at 9 p.m ... each weighing 12 pounds and about the size of a loaf of bread, will observe tropical ...