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Rocket Lab has secretly launched its own satellite that may one day go to the moon – Aviation Analysis Wing

Rocket Lab recently made a successful return to flight and launched a client satellite from an Electron Rocket, but that’s not all that happened in the

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Rocket Lab recently made a successful return to flight and launched a client satellite from an Electron Rocket, but that’s not all that happened in the mission. The company also secretly launched its own satellite, called Photon, which could one day fly ambitious missions into deep space.
The Photon is based on Rocket Lab’s “Kick Stage”, a small rocket designed to increase payloads to satellites in their final circular orbit once the Electron takes them into space. However, instead of just pack…

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