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#CommercialSpace: Rocket Lab accelerates. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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#CommercialSpace: Rocket Lab accelerates. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-completes-photon-transport-spacecraft-for-vardas-private-returnable-space-capsule/


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0:00.0

This is CBS High in the World.

0:05.7

I'm John Bachelors from the surface of the planet Earth, Rocket Lab, a success.

0:11.5

Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind the black.

0:14.4

He's an advocate of commercial space and Rocket Lab is a great illustration.

0:18.5

Bob, what is Rocket Lab?

0:21.2

Rocket Lab is the small-fat rocket company that is successfully launched in alpha,

0:26.2

like 30 times with electron rocket.

0:28.4

It also has created what it calls its photon.

0:31.6

You can call it a tug, but it's actually a transport spacecraft for bringing, for taking

0:36.2

after you launch on your layer, electron rocket, you can use the photon to take you

0:40.0

other places.

0:41.0

For example, they used it to catch non-mission, to get the capstone into a lunar orbit,

0:45.3

and they planned to use it for a Venus mission that Rocket Lab is actually building for

0:48.8

its health.

0:49.8

This story is more interesting.

0:52.6

A company named Vada had hired Rocket Lab, hired four photon transform vehicles for future

1:01.3

missions.

1:02.3

Each one of those missions was going to be using the photon to move in orbit, maneuver

1:08.6

in orbit, Vada's returnable space capsule.

1:14.5

So what happens is it gets launched on electron rocket, it's attached to photon, it's

1:19.7

attached for maneuvers in orbit, it's in orbit for a period of time, and then photon

1:24.6

then de-orbit it, and the reusable returnable capsule comes back to Earth, and is recovered.

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