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Rocket Lab Introduces Containerized Launch System For Global Deployments

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Rocket Lab Introduces Containerized Launch System For Global Deployments
Rocket Lab's containerized GHOST launch system. Image: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab [RKLB] this week unveiled GHOST, a containerized platform to support suborbital and orbital launches globally using the company’s Electron and HASTE rockets. The Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spacecraft Technology platform will debut with a suborbital launch from Alaska in 2027. Rocket Lab will bring GHOST to its Launch Complex 4 at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska, where two pads will be established for frequent launches. “Our reliability, repeatability, and affordability sets us apart from everybody else,…

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