by Carol Vaughn | Oct 13, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket arrived at Wallops Island Wednesday, Oct. 12, in preparation for the company’s first launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, scheduled for December. The launch also will be the company’s first from the United...
by James Ritch | Apr 12, 2022 | Headlines
By Connie Morrison — Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck brought his family from New Zealand to the Eastern Shore for the groundbreaking on a 250,000-square-foot rocket manufacturing complex just outside the entrance to Wallops Island launch facility on a 28-acre parcel...
by James Ritch | Jan 11, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Accomack County is a finalist to be the site of a Rocket Lab facility that will support parts production, assembly, integration, and testing for the company’s massive new Neutron rocket. The company previously announced it will launch rockets from...
by James Ritch | Aug 12, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Rocket Lab will launch a NASA-funded commercial moon mission from its New Zealand launch complex in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to a press release. The mission, called CAPSTONE (the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology...
by James Ritch | Apr 1, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Arcadia Middle School students met NASA “modern figure” Christyl Johnson, deputy director for technology and research investments for Goddard Space Flight Center, at a virtual event March 24. The movie “Hidden Figures” was released in 2016, about...
