Rocket Lab has been awarded a Venture Class Launch Services contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract, valued at $6.95M, is for the launch of a NASA payload to low-Earth Orbit on one of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicles. NASA’s payload is scheduled to fly on Electron’s fifth flight between late 2016 and early 2017.
The live announcement of the awards can be viewed here at 1pm eastern on October 14.
