Rocket Lab’s Virginia launch pad opens for business, with Air Force as first customer

Rocket Lab today celebrated the opening of a launch complex on the Virginia coast, half a world away from its first launch pad in New Zealand. The California-based company's New Zealand-born CEO, Peter Beck, announced that the first liftoff from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island would put an experimental satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force early next year. The Air Force's Monolith nanosatellite will test a miniaturized system that's designed to keep track of space weather. Over the past two and a half years, Rocket Lab has conducted 10 low-cost launches of… Read More