The blast-off may be visible from the D.C. area and along the Mid-Atlantic.
The two-hour launch window opens at 6 p.m., giving people in D.C. and the Mid-Atlantic region a chance to view the fiery trail of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket as it lifts off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The facility near Chincoteague has been around for decades and recently has been the home of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, which flies cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station.
“KSC is an amazing range, but I think everybody has to agree, it’s pretty busy,” Peter Beck, the chief executive of Rocket Lab, said in a call with reporters this week. “Whereas we can achieve almost the same trajectories out of Virginia here. The range is not nearly as busy, and there’s a lot of a lot of room to grow.”
“At this point, we will attempt to both ascend and descend, given that’s what the whole stage is designed to do,” he said. “It’d be kind of like taking off an airplane and not attempting to land it.” Eventually, Rocket Lab would like to launch rockets as often as once a month from Wallops. During the briefing this week, Beck said the company is “looking forward to a pretty rapid launch cadence out of Virginia right off the bat. There’s been a number of launches that are kind of pent up to be launched out of Virginia. So we’re very excited to release the floodgates on that.” But he didn’t say how often the company expects to launch next year.
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