The US company Aerospace Rocket Lab has been selected, by the United States and the United Kingdom, to provide a Hypersonic testing capacity with the Haste launch vehicle (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electronfor its acronym in English).
Said vehicle is designed for validate systems that operate at extreme speedsIn this way, it can offer launch services and engineering solutions for the development of advanced capacities. In addition, it is a suborbital variant of the Electron Rocket Lab rocket, optimized for Accelerate the development of hypersonic technologies.
However, Rocket Lab explains that “Haste includes much of the same innovative technology that Electron, including composite carbon fiber structures and 3D printed rocket engines”, although “it has a modified upper starting stage designed for hypersonic technology tests and a greater pay -load capacity of up to 700 kilos.” In addition, as great novelties, you have can display technologies at speeds of more than 7.5 kilometers per second To test useful air, planning and ballistic breathing loads, as well as technologies to re -enter the earth’s atmosphere from space.
On the other hand, Haste uses Rutherford engines printed such as Electro, replaces the orbital insertion stage for a superior designed to host hypersonic useful loads, and even can transport a payload of up to 700 kilos which is thrown from the rocket to more than 80 kilometers of altitude at speeds between 3 and 7.5 kilometers per second.
It is also important to mention that Haste has faced his first missionsresulting “successful to date.” The parcels include three launches for the United States Department of Defense, including two in just 21 days, from the launch complex 2 of Rocket Lab launch, located in Wallops Island, Virginia. “Together, launch vehicles Haste and Electron de Rocket Lab have deployed more than 200 useful charges From its launch sites from the United States and New Zealand to date, “says Rocket Lab in a release.
Given the development of such innovation, Peter Beck, founder and executive director of Rocket Lab, states that “the ability to contribute to the collective security of the United States and the United Kingdom Through these two important programs it is a pride for the Haste team and a demonstration of Rocket Lab’s commitment to lead the Development of innovative and unique solutions for hypersonic technology“
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