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Rocket Lab’s GHOST to enable rocket launches to take place from anywhere on Earth
['Mrigakshi Dixit']
Interesting Engineering
Looks like an entire orbital launchpad could be hitched to a semi-truck and driven anywhere on Earth, thanks to space launch provider Rocket Lab.
With this technology, Rocket Lab aims to make launch operations fully portable, especially for national security and international space defense.
Dual mission profiles Rocket Lab depends on two primary vehicles: Electron, its 59-foot workhorse launcher with 83 missions under its belt since debuting in 2017.
GHOST: Launch-anywhere capability Rocket Lab will debut its containerized GHOST system in 2027 with a suborbital launch from its newly established Launch Complex 4 at Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex.
Earlier this year, Rocket Lab secured its largest launch agreement to date through a $190 million Department of Defense contract for 20 flights of its suborbital HASTE rocket.