Rocket Lab launched its first-ever Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron, or HASTE, launch vehicle from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility the company’s Launch Complex-2 on Wallops Island in Virginia.
Rocket Lab launched its first-ever Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron, or HASTE, launch vehicle from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Saturday, June 17, at 9:24 p.m. EDT from the company’s Launch Complex-2 on Wallops Island in Virginia.
“The range team worked tirelessly to support this first HASTE mission for Rocket Lab,” said David L. Pierce, Wallops Flight Facility director. “Wallops, at its core, is a test and research range perfectly suited for these sorts of missions.”
Wallops, NASA’s only owned and operated launch range, enabled the mission providing services such as tracking, telemetry, and range safety to ensure a safe and successful mission.
Next up for Wallops is the launch of a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying more than 30 university student experiments into space Thursday, June 22, as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight opportunity programs.
Jeremy Eggers
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov
