It's Business Time! Rocket Lab Lofts 6 Satellites on 1st Commercial Launch

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It's Business Time! Rocket Lab Lofts 6 Satellites on 1st Commercial Launch









	Rocket laboratory It is officially open for business.

		The electronic rocket of the space flight startup made its first commercial flight tonight (November 10), launching six small satellites and a demonstrator of technology to low Earth orbit, approximately 310 miles (500 kilometers) above our planet.

		The mission, which Rocket Lab called "It's Business Time", began at the company's launch site in New Zealand at 10:50 p.m. EST (0350 GMT and 4:50 p.m. local time in New Zealand on November 11). The two-stage Electron first delivered its payload to an elliptical parking orbit; a "launch stage" that broke away from the top stage of the rocket and then circulated the orbits of the satellites, which were deployed about 54 minutes after takeoff, representatives of Rocket Lab said.

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		"All the payloads deployed, it really is Business Time," the Rocket Lab representatives said tonight via Twitter.



All the payloads deployed. It really is business time.

- Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) November 11, 2018

		The six satellites that mounted on the Electron tonight belong to Spire Global, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Fleet Space Technologies and the Irvine CubeSat STEM program. The technology demonstrator is a "drag sail", a gear designed to alleviate growth spatial junk problem Helping the orbit of the defunct spacecraft more quickly and efficiently.

		Rocket Lab aims to make space flights more frequent and profitable with the 57-foot-tall Electron (17 meters), which can be raised to 500 pounds. (227 kilograms) payload to Earth's orbit in each of its $ 5 million takeoffs.

		Electron has flown twice before, in demonstration missions that were launched in May 2017 and January of this year. On that last flight, "Still Testing", the rocket launched four small satellites to orbit: three Earth observation cubesats for the Planet and Spire Global companies, and a reflective ball 3 feet wide (1 m) called The star of humanity. 

		The Star of Humanity was designed to be an inspiring temporary goal for observers around the world. And it was very temporary: the satellite fell back into the Earth's atmosphere in March.

		The launch tonight was originally scheduled for April, but Rocket Lab he delayed it several times, to deal with an engine driver that behaves badly on one of Electron's first-stage engines and other problems.

		There will not be such a long rest period until Electron's next release, if everything goes according to plan. Another electron is expected to launch 10 small cubes in December, on a mission for NASA called ELaNa-XIX (Educational launch of nano-satellites No. 19).

		The main launch site for Rocket Lab is located on the Mahia Peninsula, on the northern island of New Zealand. But the company will also fly from the Mid-Atlantic regional spaceport in Virginia; The first missions of the US platform UU They could arrive as early as next year, representatives of Rocket Lab have said.

		The company recently unveiled a huge new rocket production plant in Auckland, New Zealand, which will help build enough electrons to keep up with the expected high demand. Rocket Lab also has a manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Huntington Beach, California.



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

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