William Shatner Helps Rocket Lab Unveil New Manufacturing Facility

William Shatner Helps Rocket Lab Unveil New Manufacturing Facility

William Shatner Helps Rocket Lab Unveil New Manufacturing Facility









	Rocket laboratory It intends to go boldly to where no space flight company has gone before.

		On Thursday (October 11), the California-based company unveiled a huge new facility in Auckland, New Zealand, which is designed to enable rapid mass production of the company Electronic rocket. And iconic "Star Trek" actor William Shatner was present to lend more excitement to the process.

		The electrons will undergo final assembly at the new 80,700-square-foot (7,500-square-meter) facility, representatives of Rocket Lab said. (The company already has a production facility at its Huntington Beach location near Los Angeles, which will continue operating). A new mission control center integrated into the Auckland site will command every electronic rocket launch, the representatives added.

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		Rocket Lab aims to make space flights much more frequent and accessible with the 57-foot-high Electron (17 m), which can launch 500 lbs. (225 kilograms) to Earth orbit for approximately $ 5 million per takeoff.



				By chance, Electron is the size of Captain Kirk ...@WilliamShatnerIt was a pleasure to show you our new facilities. pic.twitter.com/BmKAkMJLO7

		- Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) October 13, 2018

		The electrons have conducted two demonstration missions to date, taking off from the Rocket Lab launch site in New Zealand in May 2017 and again in January this year. The rocket deployed four satellites in Earth's orbit on that second flight, including three small cubosats of Earth observation and a spherical, reflective spacecraft, called the Star of Humanity. 

		That spaceship no longer exists; It was designed to catch the eyes of the sky watchers for a brief time, and has already fallen back into the Earth's atmosphere.

		Electron's first commercial operating launch, called "It's Business Time", is on the way for a release in November. And Rocket Lab anticipates that great things will happen soon: the company intends to launch a mission per month starting next year and one per week by the end of 2020.





						


A bird's eye view of the huge new Rocket Lab facilities in Auckland, including a mission control center that will order all future Electron releases.

            						    Credit: Rocket Lab 


		"Every detail of the Rocket Lab launch system has been designed to provide small satellites with fast and reliable access to space," Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said. he said in a statement. "This requires the ability to manufacture launch vehicles at an unprecedented rate, so we expanded our global production capacity to build and launch an Electronic rocket into orbit every week."

		Not all of these flights will leave the New Zealand launch site, which is located on the Mahia Peninsula of the North Island. Rocket Lab is in the final stages of selecting another launch site in the United States; That decision should be made public very soon, representatives of the company said.



	Mike Wall's book on the search for extraterrestrial life. "Out there, "will be published on November 13 by Grand Central Publishing. Follow it on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us @Spacedotcom or Facebook. Originally published in Space.com.

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