Photon is a satellite bus based on Rocket Lab's Electron kick stage. It moves satellites into their appropriate orbits once boosted by rockets such as...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Its Electron orbital rockets launches small satellites, and...

orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft. Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab has...

6.5" (PDF). Rocket Lab. August 2020. "Photon". Rocket Lab. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2019. "Rocket Lab successfully...

developed by Rocket Lab in collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The spacecraft will consist of a Photon Explorer cruise...

(all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (also known as Mahia Launch Complex or Spaceport) is...

<550 kg (1,210 lb). The spacecraft bus is originally adapted from the Rocket Lab Photon upper stage and is approximately 60 × 70 × 90 cm (24 × 28 × 35 in)...

Indian Mini Satellite bus NASA Ames MCSB SSL 1300 Rocket Lab Photon – Satellite bus made by Rocket Lab family Orbital ATK Star Bus family, inc GEOStar Mitsubishi...

album Automatic Photon, the Higonnet and Moyroud's Lumitype[citation needed] Photon, a satellite bus developed by Rocket Lab Photon (arcade cabinet)...

liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab for...

of Rocket Lab, an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Before founding Rocket Lab, Beck worked in various occupations and built rocket-powered...

partially reusable medium-lift two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab. Announced on 1 March 2021, the vehicle is designed to be capable of delivering...

aboard Electron and Rocket Lab's spacecraft bus platform Photon in 2022. Electron launched for the first time in May 2017, but the rocket was destroyed by...

to circularise a satellite's orbit after launch Rocket Lab Photon – Satellite bus made by Rocket Lab Blue Ring – Space tug and satellite platform NASA...

liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in Long Beach, California. The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron...

related to space robotics, proximity operations etc. RM-81 Agena Rocket Lab Photon Comparison of satellite buses Wikimedia Commons has media related...

reusable rocket stage used on the Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. It is made of a carbon composite developed and manufactured by Rocket Lab. In 2019...

of sulfuric acid". MIT. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021. "Rocket Lab Probe". Venus Cloud Life. MIT. 7 March 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023....

launched on 28 June 2022. After separating from the second stage, the Rocket Lab's Photon kick stage lifted the orbital apogee into a lunar-transfer orbit...

various orbits to deploy the various payloads. The Photon is a satellite bus designed by Rocket Lab that is a major enhancement to the Kick Stage. It is...

Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...

aerospace company Rocket Lab, who licensed the design in 2021 for commercial use. Currently, the Frontier-S has flown on Rocket Lab's Photon Pathstone spacecraft...

thermal rocket programme Photon rocket Project Prometheus, NASA development of nuclear propulsion for long-duration spaceflight, begun in 2003 Rocket propulsion...

Retrieved 15 July 2020. "Rocket Lab Debuts HASTE Rocket with First Successful Suborbital Launch from Virginia". Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab. Retrieved 24 October...

electron production: For photons at high-energy (MeV scale and higher), photon–photon collisions can efficiently convert the photon energy into matter in...

p. 82. ISBN 978-1-4214-3984-6. Denny, Mark (2019). Rocket science: from fireworks to the photon drive. Cham, Switzerland. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-030-28080-2...

A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or...

May 2022. 13 June 2020, Photon Pathfinder, The Photon Pathfinder is the same space object as the Electron Kick Stage Rocket Body, essentially extending...

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.)...

panels. The tuning of the laser wavelength of 0.840 micrometres (1.48 eV per photon) and the photovoltaic panel bandgap of 1.43 eV to each other produces an...