Category : News
Author: Dan Satherley

Life on Mars... who cares? Venus is where it's at, says Kiwi space pioneer Peter Beck.

The Rocket Lab founder - hundreds of millions of dollars richer after his start-up listed on the NASDAQ this week - says he's got "all my hopes pinned" on the hothouse planet when it comes to finding extraterrestrial life.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/rocket-lab-s-peter-beck-reveals-where-he-thinks-extraterrestrial-life-might-be-found.html
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Category : News
Author: Dawn Aerospace

Dawn Aerospace makes its first test flight of the Mk-II Aurora. and the short video has some great shots.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Dq1v3G714
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Category : News
Author: RocketLab

Long Beach, California. August 16, 2021 – Rocket Lab, a leading launch provider and space systems company, has today announced it will launch a satellite to test space junk removal technologies for Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company dedicated to the sustainable use of space.

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/new-blog-post-6/
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Author: RocketLab

MISSION OVERVIEW

The launch window for Rocket Lab’s tenth mission, ‘Running Out Of Fingers,’ is scheduled to open on 25 November 2019 NZDT from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula.

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/
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Author: Joel Achenbach

The universe doesn't look right. It suddenly looks . . . out of whack.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/117114279/scientists-are-baffled-whats-up-with-the-universe
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Author: RocketLAB

Extended range Photon missions to medium, geostationary and lunar orbits will support deeper space exploration and the return of human presence on the moon

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-to-deliver-payloads-to-the-moon-and-beyond-with-photon/
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Author: Brent Melville

Scientists can breathe easy, following the launch of Dunedin's Clean Lab.

Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/amazing-science-otago-unis-new-clean-lab-hailed
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This is the lab my work got the contract to build much of the ducting... all plastic. and I was on this job for over 8 months...
click here for some photos of the ducting that was made: http://quantumillusions.co.nz/cv/custom_ducting.php

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Author: Dan Satherley

Star Trek's Montgomery Scott famously said "ye cannot change the laws of physics", but a real-life space engineer says he might have just done that.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/nasa-engineer-invents-physics-breaking-new-space-engine.html
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