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NASA has called off plans to launch a small cubesat to the moon on Monday (June 27) to allow more time to check its Rocket Lab booster for flight.

Rocket Lab will launch NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat to the moon from New Zealand atop an Electron booster and you can watch it live online.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back again, this time to no earlier than June 25.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back another week, to no earlier than June 13.

The little CAPSTONE spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer for its big lunar launch.

The liftoff of the CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed four days to no earlier than May 31, NASA announced this week.

Rocket Lab has given us new views of its epic booster snag earlier this month.

In making its boosters reusable, Rocket Lab would be able to launch more often while simultaneously decreasing the material cost of each mission.

New Zealand Rocket Catch In this image supplied by Rocket Lab, the Electron rocket blasts off for its "There And Back Again" mission from their launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. That's when the helicopter crew sprang into action, dangling a long line with a hook below the helicopter to snag the booster's parachute lines. The crew caught the rocket but the load on the helicopter exceeded the parameters from tests and simulations, so they jettisoned it again. They just didn't like the way the load was feeling,” Beck said of the helicopter crew in a conference call after the launch. Rocket Lab named its latest mission “There And Back Again” — a reference to the movie trilogy “The Hobbit” which was filmed in New Zealand.

Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a “supersonic ballet.”.

Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a “supersonic ballet.” Rocket Lab, the company that Beck founded, partially pulled off the feat Tuesday as it pushes to make its small Electron rockets reusable. The California-based company regularly launches 18-meter (59-foot) rockets from the remote Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand to deliver satellites into space.

Rocket Lab caught a returning booster with a helicopter during an orbital launch today (May 2), notching a huge milestone for the company and its quest to make its Electron rocket partially reusable.

Space company Rocket Lab on Monday will attempt to catch the booster of its Electron rocket using a helicopter.

Rocket Lab has postponed the launch of an Electron rocket it hopes to recovery with a helicopter to no earlier than Monday (May 2).

Private space company Rocket Lab will try to grab a falling rocket booster out of the air with a helicopter for the first time Friday.

Early next month, Rocket Lab is slated to launch a pathfinding cubesat mission that supports NASA's Artemis return-to-the moon program.

Rocket Lab aims to catch a falling booster with a helicopter for the first time ever this week, and a new video shows us how the action is supposed to go down.

Rocket Lab will attempt to catch a falling Electron first stage with a helicopter during its next orbital mission, which will lift off no earlier than April 19.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) from the company's New Zealand site, carrying two BlackSky Earth-observing satellites to orbit.

Rocket Lab and SpaceX both plan to launch missions on Friday (April 1), and you can watch the space doubleheader live.

Rocket Lab will build its next-generation Neutron launcher in Virginia, at a site adjacent to the company's coastal U.S. launch pad.

Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island.

Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live.

Rocket Lab has finished work on the second pad at its New Zealand launch complex — and this newly built Pad B is set to host its first liftoff as early as Monday (Feb. 28).

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 Dec. 9 GMT).

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites is scheduled to lift off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 6:45 p.m. EST (2345 GMT). Watch it live here.

RocketLab's next-generation Neutron rocket promises to take reusability to the next level with a 'hungry hippo' nose cone integrated into a first stage that returns to the launch pad ready to fly again like an aircraft.

Rocket Lab on Thursday unveiled more about the larger, reusable Neutron rocket it is developing.

Rocket Lab will lift the veil on its next-generation rocket on Thursday (Dec. 2) and you can watch it live online.

Rocket Lab plans to pluck the falling first stage of one of its Electron launchers out of the sky with a helicopter on its next recovery mission.

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has dramatically changed his tune on reusing rockets, a practice made increasingly popular by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Rocket Lab recovered a first-stage booster during its successful launch on Wednesday (Nov. 17), taking another step toward rocket reuse.

Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission's booster, taking another step in its quest to build a partially reusable rocket.

Rocket Lab plans to recover a booster after launching two satellites to orbit tonight (Nov. 10), and you can watch the action live.

Rocket Lab plans to recover the first stage of an Electron launcher during its next mission, which is scheduled to lift off from New Zealand during a two-week window that opens on Nov. 11.

The volatile nature of space rocket engines means that many early prototypes end up embedded in dirt banks or decorating the tops of any trees that are unfortunate enough to neighbour testing sites.

Rocket Lab signed a five-launch contract with European satellite data company Kinéis. The deal adds to the space company's backlog.

Khosla Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, made multiple early bets on Rocket Lab that are paying off enormously.

Hundreds of millions of dollars now are flowing to an industry long viewed as too risky for serious investment.

California-based Rocket Lab just completed its previously announced merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven.

Rocket Lab begin trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday, becoming the latest space company to close a SPAC merger and go public.

A tiny cubesat called AuroraSat-1 will launch atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster in the fourth quarter of this year to demonstrate de-orbiting tech for small spacecraft.

Rocket Lab will provide Varda Space Industries three Photon spacecraft to support the start-up's first in-space manufacturing missions.

The company's Electron rocket launched a small satellite for the U.S. military early this morning (July 29), acing its first mission since a failure in mid-May.

Rocket Lab will launch an experimental research and development satellite to low Earth orbit tomorrow (July 29) for the U.S. Space Force. The mission will demonstrate the feasibility of large deployable sensors.

Rocket Lab has been awarded a contract to design the twin spacecraft for NASA's potential ESCAPADE Mars mission.

Rocket Lab on Tuesday announced it won an early NASA contract to send two of its Photon spacecraft on a mission to Mars in 2024.

New Zealand is urging progress on sustainability in space mining as the country becomes the 11th worldwide to sign on to the NASA-led Artemis Accords to explore the moon and beyond.

The FAA has authorized Rocket Lab to resume launches, less than three weeks after it suffered a mission-ending anomaly. But Rocket Lab still needs to finish its mishap investigation.

New Zealand NASA FILE - In this April 3, 2010, file photo, a female Osprey and one of her three chicks are seen against the backdrop of the NASA logo at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. New Zealand announced Tuesday, June 1, 2021, that it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry begins to take off. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File) (Terry Renna)WELLINGTON, New Zealand — (AP) — New Zealand announced Tuesday it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry begins to take off. There could also soon be a second New Zealand launch site. The government announced Tuesday it was partnering with Indigenous Maori to buy land in the Canterbury region to develop a space launch site. Estimates indicate the New Zealand space industry is worth 1.7 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.2 billion) and that space manufacturing generates about NZ$250 million a year.

New Zealand has become the latest country to sign a space agreement with U.S. space agency NASA, just as New Zealand’s nascent space industry begins to take off.

New Zealand announced Tuesday it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry begins to take off. New Zealand became the eleventh signatory to the Artemis Accords, a blueprint for space cooperation and supporting the U.S. space agency's plans to return humans to the moon by 2024 and to launch a historic human mission to Mars. Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said New Zealand was one of only a handful of nations able to launch rockets into space.

Rocket Lab, a California-based private company, is currently launching its small class Electron rocket from New Zealand and soon, Virginia. Rocket Lab plans to adapt the spacecraft to send a series of private robotic missions to Venus beginning in 2023. AdRocket Lab CEO Peter Beck and Neutron (Rocket Lab 2021)“It’s about time I finally ate the hat,” he said, placing a Rocket Lab baseball cap in a blending machine and then putting the blended up pieces in a martini glass. After more than 3 years of delivering reliable access to orbit, Rocket Lab is planning to go public on the @Nasdaq. https://t.co/aPe9PboexG pic.twitter.com/i7lY250mBT — Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) March 1, 2021“One thing that’s probably more exciting and most unusual for Rocket Lab is that this vehicle is capable of human spaceflight,” Beck said.

AdIt used to be -- in the U.S.-- NASA was the only way to fund and send a robotic mission to another world, but not anymore. The company wants to send the first robotic mission to Venus in 2023. (Image credit: Rocket Lab) (Rocket Lab)Meanwhile, NASA is considering funding its own missions to the planet considered Earth’s twin. Currently there are two Venus missions under consideration and two more equally fascinating missions, one designed to study Jupiter’s moon Io and another to Neptune’s moon Triton. AdHere’s what launching a robotic mission to another planet looks like, in a nutshell, according to Wagner:“This is what a typical NASA mission is.

Private space company, Rocket Lab has had plans in the works to launch a spacecraft to Venus on its Electron rocket as soon as 2023. The announcement this week added to the excitement of a mission to the second planet from the sun coming up in the near future. So from a from a climate perspective, I think we have a lot to learn from Venus,” Beck said. “Don’t get me wrong, I like Mars to just not as much as Venus,” Beck said. Rocket Lab is known for its quirky mission names but Beck says they have still not decided to on a name for the mission to Venus.

California-based space startup Rocket Lab will resume launching its Electron rockets from New Zealand this month four weeks after the company experienced its first launch failure. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said in a call with reporters Friday the Federal Aviation Administration approved the company to resume launches after an FAA-supported investigation identified the cause of the July 4 launch failure from Mahia, New Zealand. Electron had 12 previous successful launches from New Zealand prior to the 13th doomed launch. After duplicating the issue, Beck said the team was about to mitigate the problem through a slight change in its production process. Rocket Lab did not announce when in August the company plans to launch again or with what payload.