The program will demonstrate Rocket Lab’s
tactically responsive space capabilities using the Company’s
end-to-end solutions for spacecraft design, production, launch, and
operations.
Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”),
a global leader in launch services and space systems, today
announced the successful completion of its Critical Design Review
(CDR) for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s (SSC)
Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission, VICTUS HAZE.
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spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space
mission, VICTUS HAZE. Credit: Rocket Lab
In April 2024, Rocket Lab announced its selection for the $32M
U.S. Space Force SSC mission led by Space Safari in partnership
with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to design, build, license,
launch and operate a rendezvous and proximity operations-capable
spacecraft. Rocket Lab will configure its vertically integrated
Pioneer spacecraft to meet the unique requirements of the VICTUS
HAZE mission and launch it on the Company’s Electron rocket from
Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
The VICTUS HAZE mission will demonstrate responsive space
capabilities (launch readiness within 24 hours’ notice), rendezvous
and proximity operations (ability to track and reach a target
object) and the ability to identify and characterize on-orbit
threats. The mission leverages the Company’s end-to-end space
solutions to quickly respond to potential threats in orbit.
The CDR milestone is the final step in demonstrating spacecraft
design, assembly, integration, test and operational plans are
aligned with mission requirements and programmatic constraints.
“The ability to build a spacecraft, launch it, and operate it
all in-house, on a tactically responsive timeline, is incredibly
rare, but with our extensive launch heritage and deep vertical
integration across space systems, we’re ideally suited to make this
mission a success,” remarked Brad Clevenger, President and CEO of
Rocket Lab National Security. “VICTUS HAZE solidifies Rocket Lab as
a trusted and highly capable, end-to-end space company that can
enable complex missions to serve the needs of the nation.”
The successful completion of CDR marks the transition to the
production phase of the program, which will encompass integration
of the spacecraft and launch vehicle and initiation of ground
segment preparations for launch later this year.
+ About Rocket Lab
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with
an established track record of mission success. We deliver reliable
launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft components, and
on-orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier, and more
affordable to access space. Headquartered in Long Beach,
California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small
orbital launch vehicle, a family of spacecraft platforms, and the
Company is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for
constellation deployment. Since its first orbital launch in January
2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second
most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered
more than 200 satellites to orbit for private and public sector
organizations, enabling operations in national security, scientific
research, space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate
monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab’s spacecraft platforms
have been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars,
as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket
Lab has three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch
pads at a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a
third launch pad in Virginia. To learn more, visit
www.rocketlabusa.com.
+ Forward Looking Statements
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the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by
the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained
in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). All statements contained in
this press release other than statements of historical fact,
including, without limitation, statements regarding our launch and
space systems operations, launch schedule and window, safe and
repeatable access to space, Neutron development, operational
expansion and business strategy are forward-looking statements. The
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factors, risks and uncertainties included in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, as such
factors may be updated from time to time in our other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), accessible on
the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and the Investor Relations section
of our website at www.rocketlabusa.com, which could cause our
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+ Rocket Lab Media Contact Lindsay McLaurin
media@rocketlabusa.com
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