Rocket Lab Completes Two Flights For DOD Rapid Response Program

Irene Klotz August 04, 2022
Electron takes off.
Credit: Rocket Lab
A Rocket Lab Electron booster delivered a classified U.S. and Australian spacecraft into low Earth orbit on Aug. 4, the second of two missions contracted under a National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract. The launch from Rocket Lab’s privately owned...
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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