Welcome to Version 3.27 of the Rocket Report! This shall be our last report of 2020, and so I wished to want all of our common readers pleased holidays—from Christmas by means of the New Yr and past. We’ll return with weekly studies starting within the first full week of the brand new yr. And with all kinds of rocket debuts and developmental flights on the calendar, what a yr it could be.
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Rocket Lab seeks to extend cadence in 2021. Rocket Lab launched seven Electron boosters this yr, with six successes and one failure. In an interview with Ars, the corporate’s chief government, Peter Beck, stated the corporate was on monitor for 10 to 12 launches this yr earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, the launch anomaly, and different points. “It has certainly been a yr of challenges,” he stated.
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