Another competitor enters the space race
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| Science & Technology |
| RocketLab announces Neutron a competitor to SpaceX's Falcon-9. |
| 2021-03-09 |
| [NasaSpaceflight] To date, Rocket Lab has successfully introduced the first dedicated small satellite launch vehicle, Electron, which CEO Peter Beck said would never be reusable. Then, the company successfully recovered a first stage. Now, Beck says Rocket Lab is ready to do something else he previously said they’d never do: build a big rocket. The Neutron launch vehicle is a reusable, eight tons to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) rocket designed primarily to build satellite constellations. But Neutron will also be designed from the beginning to be capable of resupplying space stations in LEO and even flying crew, yet another market Beck had previously distanced himself from. First launch site will be Wallops Island Virginia |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 Another competitor enters the space race |
| Posted by: Verbal Grumble8984 2021-03-09 23:14 |
| #2 I like the idea of re-usable boosters for ICBMs. Gives "nuke 'em again" a whole 'nother dimension. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-03-09 11:07 |
| #1 Yet another candidate for the ICBM mission. |
| Posted by: Elmick Gurly-Brown1033 2021-03-09 10:09 |