NASA Hires Rocket Lab To Deliver Swarm Satellite Demo Constellation

Starling satellites concept.

Credit: Blue Canyon Technologies/NASA
In the midst of its campaign to deliver a four-cubesat constellation into orbit to track hurricanes, Rocket Lab was awarded another NASA contract to launch a second multi-cubesat mission to demonstrate autonomous swarm technologies. The quartet of Starling satellites will fly on a rideshare mission...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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