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Advisory: Launch Window Opens 3 a.m. May 15 For LB-HQ'd Rocket Lab's Second Mission With Parachute-Deployed Splash-Down Recovery Of Its Electron Rocket



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(May 14, 2021, 9:25 p.m.) -- Starting at 3:00 a.m. Pacific time on May 15, a multi-date launch window will open for Long Beach-based Rocket Lab, the satellite launch firm officed at 3881 McGowen St. in Douglas Park, for a mission (blasting off from its New Zealand launch complex) that will send satellites into orbit and (for the firm's second time) use deployable parachutes to return and recover one its Electron rockets from a splashdown from space.

LBREPORT.com plans to simulcast the firm's livestream,if available, of the launch and recovery.

"Design upgrades and new recovery processes have been introduced for this launch to enable Electron to survive the return to Earth at several times the speed of sound and under incredible heat pressure. Following a parachute deployment and ocean splashdown, Electron will be recovered, inspected, and test as we work to make Electron a reusable rocket. For details, click here.

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Long Beach is also home to Virgin Orbit (4022 E Conant St. in Douglas Park) which launches satellites using a rocket ("Launcher 1") carried and deployed from beneath the firm's specially equipped jet ("Cosmic Girl.")

A bit west in another ELB industrial park, Relativity (at 3500 E Burnett) is now developing a printed rocket.

Space X will be using a portion of the Port of Long Beach's Pier T as a marine terminal to dock vessels and offload equipment as part of west coast rocket recovery operations

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