Viasat, Rocket Lab Partner For NASA Comms Demo

Rocket Lab, which has two launches in the works in New Zealand, is building up its satellite manufacturing and space operations businesses.

Credit: Rocket Lab
In a partnership of old and new space companies, Viasat and Rocket Lab plan to demonstrate technologies to link and track satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) with communications spacecraft in geostationary orbit (GEO). The flight demonstration is one of six with NASA backing,The flight demonstration...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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