Mission success for the launch of our new suborbital launch vehicle!
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Mission success for the launch of our new suborbital launch vehicle! HASTE took to the skies from Rocket Lab LC-2 in Virginia for a suborbital mission at 21:24pm Eastern. Congratulations to our mission partners, and welcome to a new era of hypersonic test launch capability!
If you are wondering why this is a big deal , Perun has a video but as a TDLR;
With the collapse of the USSR, the USA stopped looking at missile technology enhancements. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown aerial denial is a viable strategy. However hypersonic missiles are a means to overcome aerial denial as a strategy.
China and Russia have focussed on building from their existing ballistic missile technology (e.g. use solid rocket motors), its cheap and lets you get up to the desired speeds.
The USA DoD is kicking off lots of projects around 'scramjets', this is a technological superior way to achieve hypersonic missiles (its similar to ballistic missile vs cruise missile) but scramjets don't work at low speed. So Rocket lab are offering themselves as a way to get test devices up to the desired speed.
I love following Rocket Lab!
CONGRATS team!