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Space

Air Force, Rocket Lab Successfully Launch Cubesat Spacecraft

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, August 19th, 2019

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Air Force, Rocket Lab Successfully Launch Cubesat Spacecraft

Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle. (Credit: Rocket Lab)

The Air Force successfully launched two experimental cubesats aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket Aug. 19 to serve as an on-orbit testbed for emerging technologies in 2019. Electron lifted off around 6 a.m. MDT from Rocket Lab’s Launch Pad 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) said in a press release. One of two missions aboard was the command’s Pearl White, a demonstration program with two 6U cubesats built by Herndon, Virginia-based Tiger Innovations, Inc. “The demonstration will…

Congress

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Congress

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