Breaking News
Researchers Turn Car Battery Acid and Plastic Waste into Clean Hydrogen and New Plastic
Stop Guessing: When to Pressure Can vs. Water Bath Can
What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.
12V 460Ah Epoch "V2-T" Marine Rated Battery! Holy Cow..
Top Tech News
The Most Dangerous Race on Earth Isn't Nuclear - It's Quantum.
This Plasma Stove Cooks Hotter Than The Sun
Energy storage breakthrough traps sunlight in a molecule
Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plastic
Video: Semicircular wings give Cyclone VTOL a different kind of lift
After 20 Years, Wave Energy Finally Works
FCC Set To "Supercharge" Starlink Space Internet With "Seven-Fold More Capacity"
'World's First' Humanoid Robot For Real Household Chores Launched With 16-Hour Battery
XAI Training 10 Trillion Parameter Model – Likely Out in Mid 2026
The $7 Powder That Beats Your $5,000 AC Unit!
Rocket Lab launches its two-in-one satellite for deep space missions
The team also managed to insert its own house-built Photon satellite into orbit as part of the same flight, it revealed today, marking the first outing for a spacecraft it hopes to one day send to the Moon, and possibly beyond.
New Zealand's Rocket Lab has been delivering satellites to orbit at a steady rate over the past couple of years, carrying out missions for NASA, DARPA and the US Air Force. Last Sunday it put a July launchpad failure behind it with a successful mission for Capella Space, in which a 100-kg (22-lb) satellite was placed into orbit following a clean launch and stage separation.
Soon after that, however, the team initiated a new procedure in which a secondary payload was inserted into orbit. This involved the Electron rocket's Kick Stage, which is a powerful extra stage built into the launch vehicle that uses a cold gas reaction control system to deploy satellites into highly precise orbits. But the Kick Stage is no one trick pony.