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Rocket Lab’s Electron booster returns to flight with Earth-observing satellite launch – Space.com
It’s Rocket Lab’s first flight since a July 4 launch failure.
Rocket Lab
is back in action.
The California-based company’s two-stage Electron rocket
aced its return-to-flight mission tonight (Aug. 30), delivering an Earth-observation satellite to orbit.
The launch, which took place at 11:05 p.m. EDT (0305 GMT on Aug. 31) from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launch site, was the first for the company since July 4, when an Electron failed shortly after liftoff. An investigation soon traced the cause of that anomaly to a single faulty electric connection
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