The agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 for short, was one of two payloads that lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from New Zealand today at 6:33 p.m. EDT (2233 GMT ...

Named the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, the mission's primary goal is to test the deployment of solar sails using new composite booms, which are tube-shaped materials meant to ...

The company also powers commercial constellations like OneWeb's GEN1 low-Earth orbit broadband network. At present, more than 1,100 satellites in orbit use Rocket Lab's solar products.

Shares of Rocket Lab USA Inc. are up 7.2% in premarket trades, boosted by successful launches in two different hemispheres in less than 24 hours. The company said that the launches set a new ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, has delivered the final solar panels to Maxa ...

Rocket Lab's plan for Mars. Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, Rocket Lab would be happy to perform MSR for it ...