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The new Zealand startup has carried out the first launch of its space rocket

Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck near the Electron rocket

To follow the first launches are always interesting. We have already written about the new Zealand company Rocket Lab, which built the rocket and Electron has long planned to implement its first launch. Finally it took place. The compact missile is 17 meters high and collected on the basis of the carbon-fiber body recently successfully launched from the spaceport at new Zealand Peninsula, Mahia reaching the initial boundaries of outer space. Despite the fact that the Electron is not released into orbit, its creators believe that the launch was successful.

“It was a great flight. No excesses in the engines of the first stage, its division, the launch of the second stage and its separation. We are unable to reach orbit – it’s going to understand, but to reach the borders of outer space for the first test run is the perfect application to move to the commercial phase of our program, where we can offer our clients open access to outer space,” commented the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck.

NZ startup Rocket Lab plans to specialize in the conclusion to a circumterraneous orbit of the compact companion cube-Sats. Despite the fact that booster company much less the same Falcon 9 from SpaceX and New Shepard by Blue Origin, a relatively small rocket, according to the company, will contribute to a significant reduction in the cost of space launches associated with the withdrawal of cube-Sats, and open access to the market of satellite technologies for small companies and research centres who are not able to pay for a ticket to orbit.

Video of the test launch of a rocket Electron was published in “Twitter”:

And in this video the rocket has already reached outer space:

This is only one of the three test runs scheduled Rocket Lab this year. The company hopes that in the future will be able to produce more than 50 space launches in a year, and speaks of wanting to unite their efforts with aerospace Agency NASA, the private company Moon Express and many others.

The new Zealand startup has carried out the first launch of its space rocket
Nikolai Khizhnyak

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