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Rocket Lab conducted in total secrecy, its first HASTE mission DYNAMO-A.
They launch Classified payload from Dynetics, on 18 june 2023.

The booster was not recovert
 
Flight "Baby come back" was success
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The Lab is humming now that we’ve begun the integration and testing phase of our dual ESCAPADE spacecraft! The twin spacecraft will be used to study Mars’ magnetosphere on a scientific mission for @NASA and @ucbssl when it launches in 2024.
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Rocket Lab Integrating Twin Spacecraft for Mission to Mars for NASA

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced that the two space...
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It’s hard to describe the feeling when you touch something that you know is going to another world.
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New article on Rocket Lab’s Venus Life Finder mission. Also talks about the current troubles of the other proposed missions to the planet.

VLF has already secured its ride to Venus via Rocket Lab, an upstart commercial launch provider. The exact launch date has yet to be determined—and the mission’s total cost remains undisclosed—but a launch window opens December 30, 2024, and extends into 2025. Rocket Lab is keen to partner with researchers to carry out impactful science missions with a small rocket, small spacecraft and relatively small budgets, says Peter Beck, the company’s founder, president and chief executive officer.
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In a briefing to VEXAG, Christophe Mandy, Rocket Lab lead system engineer for interplanetary missions, detailed how the probe will experience a five-minute free-fall through Venus’s thick cloud layers and take measurements every two kilometers of its descent until it succumbs to the harsh conditions circa 20 kilometers above the surface. “We’re hoping that by demonstrating that this is possible, it might be able to trigger more interest,” Mandy said.
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Talks about proposed follow up missions.

Under the label Morning Star Missions to Venus, Seager and team are looking beyond the first mission, plotting for even more ambitious medium- and long-term objectives, such as a follow-up atmospheric probe that benefits from a parachute and perhaps even a spacecraft to retrieve a sample of Venus’s air for direct analysis back on Earth. “We’re trying to get all our ducks in a row now, but we’re not quite there yet,” she says.
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Can a Private Space Mission Pierce Venus's Clouds?

Amid uncertainty over space agencies’ plans for future Venus exploration, enthusiasm for a private-sector mission grows
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The Space Bucket has just uploaded a video concerning the Neutron rocket's test campaign:


After a lot of initial development and manufacturing, Rocket Lab is just about ready to conduct some of the first significant testing milestones related to Neutron, their new partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle. This comes as both the physical launch site starts to take shape and the first full Archimedes engine is completed.
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At this point, the first static fire is in progress and expected to be conducted soon. The results of that test among other progress will help determine the future timeline of this program and what we can expect in the coming months. If successful, a first and second-stage static fire are some of the next steps. Here I will go more in-depth into Rocket Lab’s Neutron progress, the launch site, new engine, and more.
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Full article here - https://thespacebucket.com/rocket-lab...
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0:00 - Intro
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0:37 - The First Archimedes Engine
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3:37 - Stage 1 & 2 Construction
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One of the twin spacecraft we're building for @NASA and @ucbssl's mission to Mars has completed its environmental testing after spending almost two weeks in the TVAC chamber.

Gold is quickly catching up to its twin spacecraft Blue, as the team prepares for flight tank installs.

Next up for the twins: Final integration and testing before they’re shipped off for launch
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We’re building twin Mars orbiting satellites for @ucbssl and @NASA 's ESCAPADE mission and one of the two, Gold, has just completed its environmental testing after spending almost two weeks in the TVAC chamber. Both spacecraft have now completed their environmental testing and are moving into final integration and closeout activities before shipping to Cape Canaveral.
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