{"id":146511,"date":"2022-09-16T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rocket-lab-celebrates-30th-launch-and-150th-satellite-sent-to-orbit"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:24:10","slug":"rocket-lab-celebrates-30th-launch-and-150th-satellite-sent-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rocket-lab-celebrates-30th-launch-and-150th-satellite-sent-to-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab celebrates 30th launch and 150th satellite sent to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-lab-celebrates-30th-launch-and-150th-satellite-sent-to-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\/status\/1570512609543331840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today\u2019s launch<\/a> by Rocket Lab, \u201cThe Owl Spreads Its Wings,\u201d was as unremarkable as a rocket going to orbit can be, but it also marked a few milestones for the growing space company: 30 launches and 150 satellites taken to space.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s first trip to orbit <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/22\/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-second-electron-booster-test-flight\/\">was in January of 2018<\/a>, technically Electron\u2019s second test flight but the first successful delivery of a payload to space. That was after more than 10 years of design, engineering and manufacturing since the company was founded in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It then had an unbroken streak of 18 launches, but on its 20th there was an anomaly and it lost the payload and vehicle. But as founder and CEO Peter Beck told me shortly afterwards, \u201cno more than seconds after we realized that we had an anomaly on our hands, the team was already working it.\u201d And they were <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/06\/02\/rocket-lab-cleared-by-the-faa-to-resume-launches-after-mission-failure-last-month\/\">clear to fly<\/a> a month later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s launch by Rocket Lab, \u201cThe Owl Spreads Its Wings,\u201d was as unremarkable as a rocket going to orbit can be, but it also marked a few milestones for the growing space company: 30 launches and 150 satellites taken to space. The company\u2019s first trip to orbit was in January of 2018, technically Electron\u2019s second [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}