Rocket Lab wants NASA to open up the Mars Sample Return program to commercial competition, arguing it can carry out the mission faster and cheaper than the agency's alternatives. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

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NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. “As a long-trusted launch partner for NASA’s most pioneering ...

Rocket Lab is preparing for the first launch of its Electron rocket from LC-2 in Virginia in December. That site will host two Electron launches next year to deploy NASA's TROPICS satellites. Credit: ...

NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has the ...

Rocket Lab successfully deploys CAPSTONE satellite to lunar transfer orbit for NASA, charting a new path to the Moon. CAPSTONE is testing a never-before-flown orbit of the Moon and is the first ...

To bring a Martian rock sample to Earth without setting loose any potential Red Planet pathogens, NASA will need to go where no space agency has gone before — a special containment lab that doesn’t ...

Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the coast of Virginia, in the company's first launch from the U.S. The mission marks a long-awaited expansion of Rocket Lab ...